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

I thought my own leaves were yellowing; I now perceive that was only an autumnal change.

From Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)