Example Sentences

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The wax’s yellowness contrasts the white walls and gray floor, but only slightly.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

At the same time, both Islamic and Christian philosophers followed Aristotle in defining substances according to bundles of properties: hardness, yellowness and heaviness, for instance, in the case of gold.

From Nature • Apr. 28, 2020

The collection’s center of gravity isn’t yellowness, and it isn’t folk, a word conveying more easy, warm regard for humans in the plural than he can really muster.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2018

Dr. Richard Gilroy, of Intermountain Medical Center, said, “We had three perfect storms. We had a deteriorating patient with fluid, a deteriorating patient with yellowness and lastly we had a marker suggesting he had cancer.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 20, 2017

The yellowness glistened like golden hair, and the wind shook it, and bits of gold spun down upon the grass.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen