turn yellow

Example Sentences

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“Just like tea, it will bleach and turn yellow — and people say it might also get an off-flavor — if exposed to sunlight,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024

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 damage is enormous because the trees have been infected by bacteria… You can see this tree, it is green, but the leaves are starting to turn yellow, which means it may be diseased."

From BBC • Sep. 29, 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

On the way to the library I notice the trees in the sidewalk have leaves that are just starting to turn yellow.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome