Examples of “yellow” in a Sentence

noun The bright color of lemons, sunflowers, and egg yolks, produced by light around 580 nanometers.

• She painted the kitchen walls a cheerful yellow.
• The artist mixed a little blue into the yellow to make green.

adj Having the color yellow.

• The traffic light turned yellow just as we approached the intersection.
• He wore a bright yellow raincoat.
• The bananas on the counter had turned a ripe yellow color.
• We planted yellow tulips along the front path last autumn.

adj Informal: cowardly, lacking courage.

• Don't be yellow — just ask her out already.
• Nobody wanted to be called yellow, so they all jumped off the rocks.
• He felt yellow for running away from the barking dog.

verb To turn yellow, or to cause something to turn yellow, often through age.

• The old newspaper clippings had yellowed with age.
• Leaving the paper in the sun will yellow it within a few weeks.
• The pages of the old book had begun to yellow at the edges.