Example Sentences

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The Sweet Cheese had flowered nicely, but the leaves were browning.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2022

It was in the month of October, 1917 and the leaves were browning on the trees and the grass had taken on a golden tint.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2019

All along the Northeastern Seaboard, the most thickly populated area of the U.S., suburban lawns were browning and trees and shrubs parching.

From Time Magazine Archive

All at once she shut the oven door, where three toothsome loaves were browning, and listened intently.

From A Beautiful Possibility by Black, Edith Ferguson

Several white-fish nailed to oak planks were browning before a bed of glowing coals, while slices of a lake-trout were sizzling together with bits of bacon in the frying-pan.

From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)