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Example sentences for "yellowing"

Lexicographically close words:
yellowe; yellowed; yellower; yellowest; yellowhammer; yellowish; yellowness; yellows; yellowy; yells
  1. The sea sleeps, and in the moist autumn air we break tall branches of the seeded yellowing samphire from hollows of the rocks, and bear them homeward in a wayward bouquet mixed with cobs of Indian-corn.

  2. The rooms in which we met to eat looked out on narrow lanes or over pergolas of yellowing vines.

  3. Between Vienne and Roussillon the aspect is no longer French, but Italian--the distant undulations dark purple, flecked with golden shadow, the nearer terraced with the yellowing vine.

  4. The trees are yellowing into crinkled gold, and there is the touch and smell of autumn in the night air, and the orchards of France are heavy with fruit.

  5. Opening the volume with respectful care, Najib thumbed the yellowing pages.

  6. On many days the mercury mounted to ninety-five in the shade, but with wide fields all yellowing at the same moment, no one thought of laying off.

  7. On every side stretched scanty yellowing fields of grain, and from every worn road, dust rose like smoke from crevices, giving upon deep-hidden subterranean fires.

  8. The boughs above their heads, the ground under foot, were heavy with moisture, the bracken was withered and brown, there were no more butterflies, but at every breath the yellowing leaves took their uncertain flight to the wet earth.

  9. The drawer was full of yellowing papers, old bills, and miscellaneous scraps of various kinds.

  10. They turned away and began to walk down a long tunnel of yellowing trees.

  11. Beyond a gate in the court-yard wall the flower-garden drew its dark-green squares and raised its statues against the yellowing background of the park.

  12. This great and beautiful panorama begins with the yellowing of the lime-leaves, which may occur as early as 17th August, but on the average is seen on 14th September.

  13. The syringa (Philadelphus) is another foreigner, which early shows autumnal tints--yellowing on 27th September.

  14. The yellowing colonnade--its beams and overhanging fronts were also full of suggestion, and the suggestion of old time was enforced by the sign-board of a wig-maker.

  15. One midsummer I went out of the road into the fields, and sat down on the grass between the yellowing wheat and the green hawthorn bushes.

  16. And everywhere, in the grass, in the yellowing grain, along the road-bed, the poppies spilling and streaming.

  17. In the open, grassy spots, shut in by the bushy walls of yellowing ash trees, he felt unmarried and free; free to smoke as much as he liked, and to read and dream.

  18. That delicate wild thing she kept in a warm, moist, sheltered place, and forbore to look at for yellowing leaves.

  19. The August sunshine lay dim upon the dingy window-panes; the walls, stained by years of smoke and grime, were hidden by yellowing advertisements of reapers and horse liniments; in the centre was a dirty iron stove.

  20. First it left The yellowing Fennel run to seed.

  21. The Prince was conducted upstairs to a large reception-room, hung with yellowing paintings of previous Presidents, where compliments were exchanged and refreshments offered.

  22. It was after four when, brushing past a fringe of willows, the skiff bumped softly against a float half hidden in the yellowing sedge and grass at Willis's landing.

  23. She tucked the grimy pink ball of zephyr under her arm, and tightening her fingers on the bent and yellowing old needles, began again her fierce pacing up and down, up and down.

  24. This is a late summer flowering shrub that in mid-winter loses a little of its glossy green, and above its yellowing foliage bears berries in great scarlet clusters.

  25. Certain insects may also induce a general yellowing and wilting of plants by entering or destroying the tissues concerned in the transpiration--e.

  26. Yellowing may also result from the presence of poisonous or acid gases in the atmosphere or soil, such as chlorine, hydrochloric acid, sulphurous acid, etc.

  27. A thicket of witch hazel is slowly dropping its yellowing leaves.

  28. When the ragged, yellowing foliage falls, these seed clusters remain on the branches, and all through the winter the wind is plucking and carrying them away.

  29. Thus then they waited, and there was more than a glimmer of light even under the beechen leaves, and the eastern sky was yellowing to sunrise.

  30. Then fared they down through the acres, where what was yet left of the wheat was yellowing toward harvest, and the rye hung grey and heavy; for bright and hot had the weather been all through these tidings.

  31. After that, broad rolling downs of yellowing grass and russet beech-scrub lead onward to the pass La Cisa.

  32. Through the fading of innumerable leaflets, the yellowing of larches, and something vaporous in the low sun, it gains a colour not unlike that of the lands we seek.

  33. To westward the whole sky was lucid, like some half-transparent topaz, flooded with slowly yellowing sunbeams.

  34. Then, through the cobwebby windows, he saw in the yellowing west the new moon, and below it the line of distant hills.


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