turn yellow
Example Sentences
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If it rains, the harvested leaves must be dried very quickly — within a day — otherwise they turn yellow and no one wants them.
From Salon • Mar. 9, 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
The lenses in our eyes turn yellow with age because of damage from the sun’s ultraviolet rays.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2023
Finally, the leaves turn yellow in the fall.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023
As the summer heat cooled and the leaves began to turn yellow and orange and red, my aunts traveled to the markets in turn.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
