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

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

Already the nights were getting chilly, and leaves were starting to turn yellow and orange.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee