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.
were 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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By spring, they were yellowing, and by summer, they were crispy and brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
At 10, Appollo the German shepherd was getting a bit gray in the muzzle, his teeth were yellowing.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2021
They were yellowing pictures of his father, Leon W. Hall, a civil rights activist and one of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s youngest lieutenants.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2020
In the first room, there were yellowing posters, unopened boxes of merchandise, an old Mercedes-Benz sedan from a brief spell in France.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2015
My agreement expired at harvest, and already the first oats were yellowing.
From Lorimer of the Northwest by Alfred James Dewey
