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

This year, sandstorms started bearing down on parts of China in March, causing the skies to turn yellow.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 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

As the summer heat cooled and the leaves began to turn yellow and orange and red, my aunts traveled to the markets in turn.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff