turn green
Example Sentences
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In warm weather that nutrient load caused the water to turn green, so called "algal blooming".
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
After a few days, the flesh started to turn green.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
These clumps of grass quickly turn green after the rain.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2024
“That was my favorite thing, because that one hill would turn green in the spring for, like, two weeks before the Valley summer turned it brown,” Stewart says.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2022
The lake would turn green with algae, and the golf course would burn up, and the dragonflies would crack open for want of good water.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
