yellow

Example Sentences

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Traffic officers cordon off the sidewalk with yellow tape.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

Fun fact: That Post-it Notes were originally yellow was happenstance, too; that’s the color scrap paper the lab next door had available.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

There are three separate yellow wind warnings across the country, with snow predicted to hit the west Highlands, Argyll and the Western Isles.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Spare guitar chords give way to a female voice that sounds unpolished but beautiful: “I want to lay with you/ In an open field/ Where yellow flowers are suns of Earth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

My first thought was that the yellow ring had gotten tangled in a bush, and while the monkeys were flouncing and dragging the net over the ground, the net had opened.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls