yellow

It should be pale yellow or as close to clear as possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

A higher interest-rate environment typically drags down the nonyielding yellow metal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Some pieces in Bayouth’s studio have faint, yellow colorations to them that weren’t there before, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Less severe yellow heat heat alerts have also been issued for the same period for the south-west, West Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

I’m sitting in my usual place, fiddling with the loose string on the armrest, a throw cushion decorated with orange, blue, and yellow beads stitched in a pattern of repeated circles in my lap.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Russell insisted he had slowed sufficiently for the Verstappen incident, and said there was just a single yellow flag showing, rather than the double waved yellows which might have been expected for such a situation.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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

However, there will only be a narrow corridor for the VAR to overturn second yellows.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

Roughly 8 feet square, this dense frontal forest of figures—part human, part animal, part vegetal—in acidic blues, yellows and greens, is Cubist, Surrealist, Afro-Cuban.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

Subtle: just browns and yellows and hints of pale blue, but stitched with an attention to detail good enough for the king himself.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

As well as this, "he was just getting yellower and yellower", she said.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025

Removing the bluer light from the sun should make it look a bit yellower.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2023

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

I stood quietly in the doorway in my black sheath and my black stole with the fringe, yellower than ever, but expecting less.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists.

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 Weed, Clarence M.

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

I fold a yellowed lace tablecloth and lay it in the bottom of a box.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

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

The rest of the yellowing is a sign not of bad hygiene but of natural teeth “within a range of normal for that age,” Taylor said.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2025

Then they sat in the yellowing grass to rest for a minute.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby