Example Sentences

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It will yellow and curl and you will remember what it once felt like to throw your words against what everyone presumed would be your silence.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2017

Ammonia may be used, but its too frequent use will yellow bleached fabrics.

From Public School Domestic Science by Hoodless, Adelaide

Only the best and finest cardboard should be used for this purpose, since that of poor quality is liable to be broken while passing the pin through it and will yellow with age.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.

Onions, string beans and peas will yellow at more than 140 degrees.

From Every Step in Canning by Gray, Grace Viall

Thus red will harmonise with tints of green, provided the area of the tint be increased as the intensity is decreased; and so will yellow harmonise with tints of purple under similar conditions.

From Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Dresser, Christopher