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Example Sentences

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It followed Met Office amber and yellow weather warnings for wind gusts for parts of Wales, which have since ended.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

She says she has received amber ratings when commuting to Belfast for work and a red score when she had to brake sharply on a country road.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

The titular “hare with the amber eyes” in Edmund de Waal’s memoir is a netsuke, a tiny Japanese carving intended as a fastener for use with a kimono.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In the 1830s, however, the city, then the capital of East Prussia, was “still bathed in the amber glow of the late Enlightenment,” as Christopher Clark tells us in “A Scandal in Königsberg.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The tools, the sharpening wheel, the wall full of puppets—all glowed warm and cheerful in the cones of amber light.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker