yellow-brown

Example Sentences

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Back in my kitchen, my eyes fixated on the birch, its yellow-brown leaves clinging to its large, twisted frame.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

Eventually, the researchers realized that she would peel only bananas that were at the right level of ripeness, seeming to prefer the yellow-brown ones in particular.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023

But in the bright moments even the thin and wintry sunshine managed to make red-brick rowhouse walls glow, and the yellow-brown leaves still on trees glitter like heaps of copper coins.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022

Her apartment has flooded at least seven times in the eight years she’s lived there, she said, flipping through cellphone photos of her toilet and bathtub filled with dark yellow-brown water.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2022

His nails were yellow-brown, like the inside of a rotting apple, and some of the tips were curling, lifting.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini