turn yellow
Example Sentences
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A green dot on the app will turn yellow or red when there are more urgent emergencies, such as a fire or a burglary in progress, to watch out for in users’ neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2025
When exposed to excessive darkness the leaves of the mutant, COG-free plants began to turn yellow, wrinkled, and thin -- signs the plants were dying.
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
This year, sandstorms started bearing down on parts of China in March, causing the skies to turn yellow.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023
And in 2015 researchers at the University of California, San Diego, created a lab-based gene drive in the innocuous vinegar flies Drosophila that simply made all the flies’ eyes turn yellow.
From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2023
The buds turn yellow, the skipping ropes come out.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
