YELLOW in a Sentence

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233 example sentences for YELLOW, such as:

1. The color is yellow inclining to green.
2. If you mix blue and yellow, you get green.
3. Her hair was tied up with a yellow ribbon.
4. Don't park your car on double yellow lines.
5. Red and yellow flames spurted out of the fire.

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 Meanings and Examples of YELLOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
yellow
 n.  a color whose hue resembles that of ripe lemons or sunflowers
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The hush of midnight lay on the village, and all its waking life was gathered behind the church windows, from which strains of dance-music flowed with the broad bands of yellow light.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clay fields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  While Gerald launched forth on his news, Mammy set the plates before her mistress, golden-topped biscuits, breast of fried chicken and a yellow yam open and steaming, with melted butter dripping from it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Heads bowed in the circle of yellow light as Ellen thanked God for the health and happiness of her home, her family and her negroes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  Through the window Scarlett could see the bright riot of the twin lanes of daffodils bordering the graveled driveway and the golden masses of yellow jessamine spreading flowery sprangles modestly to the earth like crinolines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Her gray organdie dress, with its cherry-colored satin sash, disguised with its billows and ruffles how childishly undeveloped her body was, and the yellow hat with long cherry streamers made her creamy skin glow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  She suddenly felt that this was where she belonged, not in serene and quiet old cities, flat beside yellow waters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The neat wooden-paneled fence had been newly painted white and the front yard it inclosed was yellow starred with the last jonquils of the season.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  On the front steps stood two women in black and behind them a large yellow woman with her hands under her apron and her white teeth showing in a wide smile.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Yesterday she had worked until she was worn out in the dusty old barn of an Armory draping yellow and pink and green cheesecloth on the booths that lined the walls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  It was a long yellow sash, made of thick China silk and edged with heavy fringe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  Rhett Butler had brought her a yellow shawl from Havana several months before, a shawl gaudily embroidered with birds and flowers in magenta and blue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  But Sherman flanked them again, crossing the stream above them, and the weary gray files were forced to hurry across the yellow water and throw themselves again between the invaders and Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  The lamp in the parlor window threw odd golden shadows onto the dark vine-shrouded porch, and the matted tangle of yellow climbing roses and honeysuckle made a wall of mingled fragrance about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
2  We must weed out the yellow flowers among the onions as soon as possible.
3  She tried to create the impression of strong sunlight by stippling the canvas in yellow and white.
4  If you mix blue and yellow, you get green.
5  The colours of the spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet - can be seen in a rainbow.
6  The yellow curtains contrast with the blue bedcover.
7  Crowds of French and British families plodded around in yellow plastic macs.
8  Don't park your car on double yellow lines.
9  The color is yellow inclining to green.
10  You can't mistake their house - it's got a bright yellow front door.
11  Devil killer body, a large wavy golden hair shine, slender legs wearing a yellow goose miniskirts, show figure of the perfect.
12  The bathroom is decorated in green and yellow.
13  Her hair was tied up with a yellow ribbon.
14  You can use any two colors — for example, red and yellow.
15  Red and yellow flames spurted out of the fire.