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Example sentences for "yellowed"

Lexicographically close words:
yeller; yellin; yelling; yellow; yellowe; yellower; yellowest; yellowhammer; yellowing; yellowish
  1. Somewhere lay yellowed photos of old people and children.

  2. He was ashamed of his eyes, as if they betrayed sinful adventures, and he hid them under yellowed lids.

  3. The paper was old and yellowed with time.

  4. The table had been laid with an elaborately embroidered tablecloth, of good quality but slightly yellowed with age.

  5. A bit of yellowed crocheting finished the neck-line, no doubt the work of her grandmother, the dressmaker, who had been the seamstress for the Gates family.

  6. She lifted the ring from the tiny case and as she did so, noticed for the first time a scrap of paper, yellowed with age.

  7. These pictures, though yellowed and faded, suggest vividly the being I once was, the feelings that possessed and animated me, love for my playmates, vague impulses struggling for expression in a world forever thwarting them.

  8. The yellowed hands fell limply to the sheet, the shrunken form stiffened.

  9. A little way from the town we perceived an odd gathering on the road, the yellowed and weathered hunting shirts of Bowman's company mixed with the motley dress of the Creole volunteers.

  10. The branches of the elm trees arched over Janey's head, and now and then, shaken by a drowsy breeze, the yellowed leaves fell noiselessly.

  11. He wore a top-hat of grey, with a wide brim, and a frock coat, and carried a cane with a yellowed ivory head.

  12. A pile of yellowed linen lay in the bottom of the trunk, redolent of camphor from contact with its perishable neighbors.

  13. My own eyes were full of tears as Aunt Winnifred went down the stairs, leaving me sitting dreamily there in the sunset light, with the old yellowed bridal veil across my lap and the portrait of Eliza Laurance in my hand.

  14. The rest of the compartment was filled with household linen, fine and costly but yellowed with age--damask table linen and webs of the uncut fabric.

  15. And his impression was heart-rending, during the few seconds when his eyes met the half effaced ones of the yellowed image!

  16. Then, there were intervals of solitude when one heard, in these paths, only the buzz of flies, in the yellowed and finishing shade of the trees.

  17. His deeply-bronzed cheeks had yellowed and were thin and hollow, and his eyes dull and apathetic.

  18. The smell of leather, of wood smoke, and even the delicate musty smell of the rich, yellowed paper of old books mingled with the hazy fragrance of a Turkish cigarette.

  19. One seemed to contain household linen, once fine and dainty and white, now yellowed and covered with the dust of years.

  20. Napkins, yellowed with age, were fallen about, dropped apparently in sudden forgetfulness.

  21. He could see it lifting in a faint gray line, uncovering the reach of the flat salt marshes with their dank yellowed grasses; a thin silver net of it hung for a second between the sky and the earth, and was gone.

  22. All about him, as far as the eye could reach, lay the flat, salt marshes with their dank, yellowed grasses.

  23. A mat of shadows crept over the flat salt marshes and through the dank yellowed grasses.

  24. But it was some minutes before I could induce myself to take up that yellowed old diary and examine it.

  25. So we wrapped her, brown silk dress and yellowed laces, and long black hair, in the strip of canvas, and gave her to the earth.

  26. Between the pages following this last entry was a piece of yellowed paper, the paper that had been lost from the Author's coat pocket, in the locked closet of his room.

  27. Under her fleshless hand lay the soiled and yellowed papers she had written, and over which, in biting mockery, she had kept watch and ward.

  28. It was written in so fine and small a hand as was only possible to the users of goose-quill pens; and this tiny, faded, brown writing on the yellowed pages covered a period of years.

  29. No sculptor had ever modeled hand and arm so perfect as that which the yellowed glove had held; no foot was ever shaped with graceful line equal to that which once the satin slipper had incased.

  30. I invariably spend a few meditative moments before the yellowed satin wedding dress and the white silk which the bride had worn at dinner on that last day of spinsterhood.

  31. And I shall do the same," whispered Mary resolutely, pressing her lips together in a tight line, as she slipped the paper back into its yellowed envelope and laid it aside to show it to Jack on his return.

  32. Maybe, a hundred years from now, some young girl rummaging through the attic may find my beautiful dress all yellowed with time, and the rose leaves dried and scentless.

  33. Next day in folding away some of her mother's things she came across a yellowed envelope which contained something of more permanent consolation than even her garden had given.

  34. She was waving a time-yellowed and tattered newspaper in their faces, and calling attention to the headlines and pictures on the front page.

  35. A ragged scrap of yellowed paper fluttered out on to the step.

  36. He untied the blue ribbon and the thin, yellowed papers, with fragments of their broken seals still sticking to them, fell apart.

  37. He gazed upon it long and tenderly, and with it still exposed to view brought from his desk the little packet of yellowed letters in their faded blue ribbon.

  38. The boys looked with the keenest interest at the package of papers that were mildewed and yellowed by time.

  39. On Count Martin's yellowed face two or three wrinkles appeared.

  40. When they reached the foot of the leaning rock, which had one time been the stairway to the rock house, they gathered about Jerry who was opening the yellowed envelope.

  41. While he talked, he went behind his counter, took an old cigar box from a high shelf, opened it and held out an envelope, yellowed with age.

  42. The spring has reddened and yellowed the tips of the twigs, but not enough to make the bushes look really alive yet.

  43. The tide was coming up in the river, and the cakes of ice, yellowed in patches by the salt water until they were like unshorn fleeces, were driven against the long sluice-piers, jostling and pushing like sheep frightened into a corner.

  44. It lay reflected in the water and in the dim and yellowed forest paths behind him.

  45. Kenny knew by the flurried brightness of his eyes sunk deep in the yellowed gauntness of his face that he was drunk.

  46. Joan was holding out the clipping, her slender arm in its fall of yellowed lace a thing to catch the eye of any Irishman whom Fate for the good of the world of art had made a painter.

  47. The chest was full to the brim of old-time gowns, glints of faded satin and yellowed lace, buckled slippers and old brocade.


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