yellow light
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of yellow light
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Still, candlelight casts a genuine spell with its yellow light and deepened shadows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
Exit and walk around in front of a yellow light projected against the rainbow wall’s back side, and your cast shadow mysteriously fragments, like a deck of cards being fanned.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
A few years later, Detroit police officer William Potts is credited with adding the yellow light, though as a city employee he couldn’t patent it.
From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024
Scientists exposed mice to lights that had different hues but were equal in brightness and found that yellow light did more damage to their sleep than blue light.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2023
Along the shore and up on the palisades, warm yellow light poured from the windows of homes and shell houses.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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