Example Sentences

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The door leads on to the forecourt of a small shopping mall, and next door, looming yellowly beside the river that marks the border with Singapore, is Legoland.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2015

A small bronze Salome, yellowly limp and poised as Indo-Chinese sculpture.

From Time Magazine Archive

To her horror, the place where the needle had entered was swollen, dark-green and festering yellowly.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Lights snapped on in a thousand windows, shining yellowly against the cool whiteness of dawn.

From Celebrity by McKimmey, James

Anne fled to the pantry and returned with a small bottle partially filled with a brown liquid and labeled yellowly, "Best Vanilla."

From Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)