yellow
noun
a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nanometers.
was yellowing
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past progressiveof yellow.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Our now-obsolete schedule was yellowing on the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
She was concerned his skin was "yellowing" and feared he may have glandular fever.
From BBC ● May 4, 2016
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.
From The House of the Wolfings by William Morris
Bracken was yellowing, heather passing from bloom, and the clumps of wild-wood taking the soft russet and purple of decline.
From The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
She swallowed a lump in her throat with determination, and raised her eyes to the old sweet apple-tree whose fruit was yellowing in the August sunshine.
From Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various
