Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for yellow. Search instead for yelloww.
Definitions

yellow

[yel-oh] / ˈjɛl oʊ /




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

It’s a yellow triangle with no face, and it wears sunglasses.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Softer CPI or PPI numbers this week could help gold rebound, but “stronger-than-expected prints may lift the dollar and yields, pushing the yellow metal lower,” he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Hundreds of yellow metal barricades were set up on roads leading to central Delhi, while six major metro stations remained shut.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The object at the center of the dispute was Molly, a mechanical yellow bird mounted on the store’s wall and used in its magic shows.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

Cam hands one of the key chains—it’s red, orange, and yellow, fire colors—to his cousin.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

You may find soft pink, mauve and lilac relaxing, or you may find yellows and reds more vibrant and lift your mood.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The outside world recedes, and the colors of the house’s interior slowly deepen from cheerful yellows and blues to muted greens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Second yellows can be reviewed: Players sent off for two cautions can have the second booking checked - but there will be no reviews for potential second yellows.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

On the wall behind the couch where clients sit, I hung a tapestry that features a sun rising over an abstract landscape of pinks and yellows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

I’ve never seen colors so intense, not just blue and yellow and red, but the deepest blues and brightest yellows and most vibrant reds you’ve ever seen.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Light bulbs with warmer or yellower tones are more suited to our circadian rhythm than bluer light — that’s why the “night” mode on your smartphone uses them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

It had red writing spelling out the brand name Velveeta, the cheese substance that, depending on your color sense, is either bold gold or yellower than school bus yellow.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

In its crystalline form, sodium nitrite looks like a yellower cousin of table salt.

From Salon ● May 23, 2021

Many of the nation's rivers turn yellower in spring or summer as peaking rainfall muddies the waters.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 8, 2021

Only the yellower ones survived because they were more fit to survive the torrid weather.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Mallory Ortberg: “Jeeves, bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I’m going into the Park to do pastoral dances.”

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2017

Fishkill Farms has the best eggs with the yellowest yolks.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016

A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

Not even the yellowest journals suggested that Banker Morgan was selling his pictures because he needed the money.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kirby in his "Butterflies and Moths" makes this comparative statement: "The border is whitest in British specimens, and perhaps yellowest in American ones."

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

Ms. Brown keeps yellowed documents from the farm’s early days, including the 1741 deed to the property from Lord Thomas Fairfax, who owned millions of acres in Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

They simply weren’t my taste anymore, and I didn’t like how the resin had yellowed over time.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

Fruit stored at 30°C yellowed rapidly, while mangoes kept at 12°C maintained their color longer because chlorophyll breakdown slowed significantly.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026

He takes out a faded notepad with loose leaves of paper that have yellowed with age.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025

The older man with the yellowed mustache, General, leaned in to whisper to the small man with the bald head they called Mint.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

By the time a patient experiences signs, such as jaundice – a yellowing of the skin – or abdominal pain, the cancer has often already spread to other organs.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026

As Gray worked with old, yellowing scans of Lee’s drawings in Photoshop, he accidentally inverted the colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

One ledger of yellowing pages vividly evokes the cases of patients from 1919, the year after the end of World War I.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

It’s the moment of yellowing when lead starts becoming gold but isn’t gold yet.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026

When I wake up, the dying light of the day makes everything seem to matter, from the yellowing sky to the stalks of grass above my head, waving in slow motion like a beauty queen.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green




Vocabulary lists containing yellow


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember new words for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com