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Example sentences for "yellow"

Lexicographically close words:
yella; yelled; yeller; yellin; yelling; yellowe; yellowed; yellower; yellowest; yellowhammer
  1. Epichloe, which clothes the sheaths and halms of grasses with its stroma, at first snowy white and later ochre-yellow as the perithecia form, is another example.

  2. In the leaf-curl the yellow and flaccid appearance of all the leaves of a stalk, or even of the plant, is the striking symptom, and the stem soon droops and blackens just above the soil, a white mould appearing also at the black spots.

  3. Thus the minute golden yellow spots sometimes crowded on Oak leaves are due to Phylloxera punctures.

  4. Discolorations in the form of confluent yellow and orange patches, etc.

  5. Many tropical leaves are spotted yellow by epiphytic Algae--e.

  6. Pallor due to too intense illumination must be kept sharply distinct from etiolation, the pale green or yellow hue being here due to the destruction of the chlorophyll by insolation, and the accessory symptoms of "drawing" are wanting.

  7. It must be noticed that many fungi produce yellow spots or flecks in the earlier stages, which turn brown or black as the fructifications appear, e.

  8. Yellow patches are formed on the large leaves of Arisarum by a species of parasitic Alga, Phyllosiphon, which lives in the mesophyll.

  9. Yellow spots are also a frequent symptom of the presence of Aphides, of Red Spider, etc.

  10. Oniscus, the Frit Fly, and Cecidomya, the Hessian Fly, which attack young winter wheat within the sheaths and cause the plants to turn yellow and wilt.

  11. His face was now more yellow and shrunken than ever, due to a rather heavier consumption of his favorite drug, morphine; his nose had hooked more strongly, and his one gold tooth of other days now had two more to bear it company.

  12. A clerk appeared, with a yellow envelope in hand.

  13. And yet he still clings on, and withers, and grows yellow like an old dead leaf that will not drop from the tree!

  14. He knew that if they came near to him it was to lay hands on his yellow mop.

  15. For he was suffering greatly in advance, and writhing on the leather-covered seat, and all but pulling out his yellow hair.

  16. Flat upon his pallet once more, with both hands under his yellow head, he smiled into the black of the kitchen, telling himself that he would not change places with any boy in the whole of the great sleeping city.

  17. Each horse was in a stall of its own, and under each was straw as yellow as Johnnie's own hair.

  18. He sighed, leaned against the side of the shelf, propped his yellow head on a big hand, and watched her sadly.

  19. Presently, however, on being ordered off the rails by an irate truck driver, he made on homeward slowly, his yellow head lowered thoughtfully, the box scraping along behind him at the end of a piece of rope.

  20. Supper," pronounced Mrs. Kukor, seeing that the book was indeed well hidden and would bring no fresh troubles upon that yellow head that day.

  21. Between his outstretched arms his yellow head lay as still as if it were stone.

  22. It stood before him in the yellow bedding, and the little old man seated in it kept holding out trembling hands.

  23. But it stayed, a bright pat, as yellow as his own hair, on a doll's dish of a plate.

  24. One-Eye stroked the yellow hair he had ruffled, and whispered fondly under that dun mustache.

  25. Johnnie hated Big Tom worse than he hated his own yellow hair.

  26. His whispering was accompanied by gesticulations that bore no relation to bead-stringing, and by tossings of his yellow head.

  27. First into town that morning rode Yellow Barbee; with no urge to linger and a definite destination ahead, he always rode hard, his hat far back, his blue eyes shining.

  28. A look of understanding flashed between Yellow Barbee and Professor Longstreet as the two came down from the ranch-house.

  29. With Yellow Barbee had come John Carr, Longstreet and Helen, and two of the Desert Valley men, Chuck Evans and Dave Terril.

  30. Yellow Barbee's eyes fairly invaded Helen's as he jerked her his bow.

  31. It was simplicity itself and here was he, Professor Edward Longstreet, measuring his judgment against that of Mexican Mendoza, Mexican Chavez and Yellow Barbee, cowpuncher.

  32. When Alan Howard and the professor picked up their conversation, and again Helen found herself monopolized by John Carr, from here and there about the table came pointed remarks to Yellow Barbee.

  33. That horse,' he went on steadily, 'I bought a long time ago from Yellow Barbee.

  34. Yellow Barbee sat slumped over a table, his lean, grimy fingers twisting an empty glass.

  35. And among them all Helen knew at once, upon the instant that he swaggered in, El Joven, Yellow Barbee.

  36. But the answering shout, closer now, was unmistakably the voice of Yellow Barbee.

  37. Thereafter Longstreet beamed upon his daughter while Yellow Barbee, his hat far back upon the blonde cluster of curls, turned his insolent eyes upon her.

  38. Leaving his horse to pant and fight flies, Yellow Barbee strode in at the open door.

  39. The two names fitted him as his two gloves may fit a man's hands; among the young he was The Youngster, as among blondes he was Yellow Barbee.

  40. When a few minutes later Longstreet reached the adobe saloon of 'Tonio Moraga, he found Yellow Barbee smoking a cigarette outside the deep-set door.

  41. It is as if the palace were in quarantine, with the yellow flag floating.

  42. Gold is a metal of a yellow color, a characteristic by which it is distinguished from all other simple metallic bodies.

  43. Chrome yellow is extensively manufactured in Baltimore, from the chromate of iron, found near that city.

  44. Before it is applied in this way, it is flattened between rollers of polished steel, and then wound on yellow silk by machinery.

  45. Spanish brown, yellow ochre, and terra di sienna, are earths impregnated with iron in different degrees of oxydation.

  46. Of the pine, there are several species, of which the white and yellow are the most valuable; the former of these grows in the greatest abundance in the Northern, and the latter, in the Southern states.

  47. The former are those in which red and yellow predominate; the latter are blue, gray, and others allied to them.

  48. The fountain in The Dingle sent up a silvery tree of spray, while the white and yellow water-lilies in its little pool blinked like sleepy children.

  49. The so-called Yellow Tower was the scene of his wizard craft.

  50. His lang, lang hair in yellow hanks Waved o'er his cheeks sae sweet and ruddy, But now they wave o'er Carlisle yetts In dripping ringlets clotting bloodie.

  51. Here a white-capped maid dispenses, at twopence a glass, the yellow fluid which hisses up hot from a fountain just behind her and falls murmuring into a marble vase.

  52. We took our way through Shropshire lanes whose hawthorn hedges on either side were fringed with yellow wisps of rye scraped off from the harvest loads.

  53. A yellow rick rose just behind the wall, the straws blowing in the wind as if they wanted to pull away and go to church with the rushes.

  54. In the right hand they carried barbed lances and battle-axes, which can also be used as missiles; and in the left a shield, with a snow-white rim and yellow boss.

  55. The flowers are pale yellow when they first open, but become reddish after the first day.

  56. Glowing like a furnace, the vast extent of yellow sand stretched to the horizon.

  57. Upon arrival I found, in high yellow grass beneath a large tree, the tetel dead, and Abou Do wiping his bloody sword, surrounded by the foremost of the party.

  58. The sub-acid flavour of the seeds, enveloped in a dry yellow powder within the large shell, was exceedingly refreshing.

  59. The hollows between the hills are choked with a yellow sand, which, drifted by the wind, has, in many instances, completely filled the narrow valleys.

  60. In the extensive prospect before us, the dark green veins of foliage in the otherwise yellow surface of withered grass marked out distinctly the course of small rivulets.

  61. The trees were perfectly denuded of leaves from the extreme drought, and the beautiful balls of frosted yellow gum recalled the idea of the precious jewels upon the trees in the garden of the wonderful lamp of the "Arabian nights.

  62. The leaf resembles that of the myrtle; the blossom has a powerful fragrance; it grows like a feather, about eighteen inches long, forming a cluster of small yellow flowers.

  63. Among the new comers is a beautiful little bird, in size and shape like a canary, but of a deep bluish black, with an ivory white bill and yellow lips.

  64. In the mean time I watched the rhinoceros; both animals lay down in the yellow grass, resembling masses of stone.

  65. Cloths dyed in yellow or scarlet are bought by Brahmans and other castes of Hindus for their marriages.

  66. A Brahman also prefers to wear yellow when eating his food.

  67. The auspicious date of the wedding is fixed by the Brahman and intimation is given to the boy's family through the lagan or formal invitation, which is sent on a paper coloured yellow with powdered rice and turmeric.

  68. They are coloured with chapra, the pure gum prepared like sealing-wax, which is mixed with vermilion, or arsenic and turmeric for a yellow colour.

  69. Yellow is, however, also lucky as being the colour of Vishnu or the Sun, and a yellow flag is waved above his great temple at Ramtek on the occasion of the fair.

  70. Afterwards they carry rice in the same manner and with this is the wedding-rice, coloured yellow with turmeric and known as the Lagun-gath.

  71. We will bring hither red rice, yellow rice, and white rice for your subsistence.

  72. All Hindu brides have their bodies rubbed with yellow turmeric, and the principal religious flower, the marigold, is orange-yellow.

  73. The bridegroom wears a yellow or white dress, and has a triangular frame of bamboo covered with tinsel over his forehead, which is known as basing and is a substitute for the maur or marriage-crown of the Hindustani castes.

  74. In tracts where the people of northern and southern India meet she is identified with Anna Purna, the corn-goddess of the Telugu country; and in her form of Gauri or 'the Yellow One' she is perhaps herself the yellow corn.

  75. In another description of them by Major Powlett it is stated that, besides worshipping Hindu gods and keeping Hindu festivals, they employ a Brahman to write the Pili Chhitthi or yellow note fixing the date of a marriage.

  76. The bride must wear a yellow bodice and cloth, yellow and red being generally considered among Hindus as the auspicious colours for weddings.

  77. Achilles kept unshorn his yellow hair, because his father had vowed to offer it to the river Sperchius if ever his son came home from the wars beyond the sea.

  78. Or else, they mingle pepper with the seed of the stinging nettle; [952] and the yellow camomile pounded in old wine.

  79. If she has a cast in the eyes, she is like Venus: if yellow haired, like Minerva.

  80. The next witness was the Brooklyn tradesman, whose evidence had been already so much exploited by the yellow journals that it lacked the force of novelty.

  81. Mr. Fenton, on cross-examination, proved that she had been dismissed without a character from the services of the Misses Van Vorst, also that she had been paid for her evidence by a yellow journal.

  82. They made a wonderful big pumpkin out of the wheelbarrow, trimmed with yellow paper, and Cinderella rolled away in it, when the fairy godmother waved her wand.

  83. It was early springtime, and few other flowers were to be seen; but she had the birds to sing to her and the sun to shine upon her pretty yellow head.

  84. Suddenly he saw a big yellow light at the very edge of the sky.

  85. No yellow on wing; tail-feathers pointed, outer ones much the shortest.

  86. More yellow below, more olive-green above.

  87. Under wing-coverts yellow as in [Male]; above as in No.

  88. Below sulphur streaked with black; tail largely rusty brown; a yellow crown-patch; inner wing feathers widely margined with whitish; back grayish brown streaked with dusky.

  89. Forehead and loral region orange; rest of head green like back; no yellow on bend of wing.

  90. Similar to 274 but larger, bill yellow at base, black or brown bands wider.

  91. Bill stout, upper mandible curved; no yellow before eye or on bend of wing.

  92. Above grayish olive-green, head grayer; below dingy grayish with a yellow tinge.

  93. It was not black, like the prairies and bottoms of Illinois and Kansas, but of a light yellow snuff-color, and deemed sterile by many.

  94. The whole garment, made of buckskin obtained from the traders, was of a yellow color, the fringe being a deep crimson.

  95. The air continued chilly, and moaned among the branches, from which the crisp leaves, turning from bright yellow and flaming crimson to dull brown, were continually drifting downward.

  96. It was a parallelogram of a faint yellow glow only a short distance in front of him.

  97. The yellow reflection showing through one of the side-windows led Jo to detect its meaning with scarce a moment's hesitation.

  98. The landscape about him began to pinwheel and he saw the streets of the colony through a wavering yellow mist.

  99. Ethyldisulphide is colorless: ethyldisulphidedichloride is a faint yellow oil(44).

  100. This nitro compound crystallizes in flattened needles of a light yellow color.

  101. Methyl disulphide is colorless, but methyldiselenide(42) is a reddish yellow liquid.

  102. This is the case with o-diaminodiphenyldisulphide(48) which is yellow both in solution and in crystalline form.

  103. After the solution was boneblacked, the yellow precipitate was recrystallized from carbon disulphide.

  104. It crystallizes in yellow plates, melting at 156.

  105. At noon the yellow lions come down to the water's edge to drink.

  106. He is wrapped in yellow linen and embalmed in spices.

  107. Salome's lover sees her as a little dancing princess, with yellow veil and silver feet.

  108. It belongs to the days when the most natural thing in life is to talk until "the dusky night rides down the sky," and the pale morning light mocks at our yellow lamp.

  109. Here and there a few stunted vines, yellow with the colour of autumn, crept along the soil in a few places cleared out in the wilderness.

  110. It was high time to be off, when the yellow fever, the deadly vomito, had thus made its triumphant entry, and was ruling and ravaging like some mighty man of war in a stormed fortress.

  111. But even had the yellow fever not been there, I doubt if any one would have laughed at me; there is too much sound sense amongst us.

  112. I was at New Orleans, which city was just then held fast in the gripe of its annual scourge and visitor, the yellow fever.

  113. Soon after our arrival at Yellow Medicine an old squaw told us that we had better be getting away, as there would be trouble.

  114. He says: On Monday, the 18th day of August, I went to Yellow Medicine with my sister Ellen upon an errand.

  115. With the captives and prisoners we took up our line of march for Yellow Medicine, where the commission appointed by the General tried and condemned 305 Indians to hang.

  116. The Indian camp, mostly made up of women and children, had been moved from Yellow Medicine to this place, where the trial still progressed.

  117. The missionaries residing a short distance above the Yellow Medicine, and their people, with a few others, were notified by friendly disposed Indians, and to the number of about forty made their escape to Hutchinson, Minnesota.

  118. The news they brought was that a large camp of hostiles was located above the Yellow Medicine, where they held as captives about four hundred white women and children, and one white man.

  119. A week after that Akipu, an Upper Indian, came down from the Yellow Medicine Agency and took us up with him.

  120. A few miles above the Yellow Medicine were the churches and schools of the Rev.

  121. Among the attractive and cultivated women found among the prisoners was a Miss Mattie Williams, of Painesville, Ohio, who at the time of the outbreak was living with an uncle on the Yellow Medicine River.

  122. Beautiful birds, ye come thickly around When the bud’s on the branch and the snow’s on the ground; Ye come when the richest of roses flush out, And ye come when the yellow leaf eddies about.

  123. The flames leaped up high in red and yellow streaks.

  124. He quickly opened his wallet, and a stream of yellow dollars was poured into it.

  125. Soon red will bud the maple trees, The bluebirds will be singing, The yellow tassels in the breeze Be from the poplars swinging.

  126. They are a tall, strong race, with yellow hair and bright blue eyes.

  127. And I peeped into the widow’s field, And, sure enough, were seen The yellow ears of the mildewed corn, All standing stout and green.

  128. To the cold December heaven Came the pale moon and the stars, As the yellow sun was sinking Behind the purple bars.

  129. In chronic inflammation of the rectum and colon there is more or less discharge of mucous, and in some cases of membranous, desquamation, with yellow or bloody mucus.

  130. Peter," she said gently, "when you and your companions were in the hands of the Yellow Devil and about to be sold as slaves, who was it that rescued you?

  131. This is how the Yellow Devil buries his dead and cures his sick," said Otter.

  132. Thither we must go, for it is on the further side of those hills that the great swamp lies where the Yellow Devil has his place.

  133. I found you this morning, and we are not parted yet, Yellow Devil.

  134. And now your time has come at last, Yellow Devil, and I, Otter the dwarf, will give you to drink of your own medicine.

  135. Go on digging for the yellow iron which is so hard to find, and of which, when it is found, no man can even make a spear?

  136. Thus then did fate at last find out Antonio Pereira, the Yellow Devil.

  137. Yellow Devil, the white men tell us of a hell, a place where dead people are tormented.

  138. He took the bribe, and being brave and desperate, he drew you out of the clutches of the Yellow Devil, though in that matter also I had some part; and then you loved him.

  139. That is the Yellow Devil," said Otter, "and those men were looking at the maid who is called the Shepherdess.

  140. But to himself he thought that he should be sorry for Pereira, alias the "Yellow Devil," if once Otter found a chance to fly at his throat.


  141. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yellow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    yellow bird; yellow clay; yellow color; yellow fever; yellow five; yellow flowers; yellow light; yellow lion; yellow ochre; yellow paper; yellow peril; yellow pine; yellow poplar; yellow precipitate; yellow satin; yellow silk; yellow spot; yellow spots; yellow stain; yellow stockings; yellow streak; yellow when; yellowish color; yellowish colour; yellowish green; yellowish white