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Example sentences for "dull yellow"

  • Use 6 tablespoonfuls of bright yellow dye, and 5 tablespoonfuls of dull yellow dye, and 2 tablespoonfuls of green dye to 6 yds.

  • Use 14 tablespoonfuls of dull yellow dye to 6 yds.

  • The head and thorax are yellowish-brown, and the abdomen is dull yellow.

  • It is tolerably uniform in thickness, and of a dull yellow colour.

  • Skin, dull yellow, covered with thin brownish grey russet, and marked with large russety dots.

  • Skin, pale green at first, but changing to dull yellow, streaked with red.

  • The entire plant is pale or dull yellow, the surface of the pileus fibrous and somewhat uneven but not scaly.

  • It is entirely white or the cap varies to buff, dull yellow reddish or dull brown.

  • The margin often becomes upturned when old; the cap is viscid when moist, dull yellow.

  • Dried Elder flowers have a dull yellow colour, being [166] shrivelled, and possessing a sweet faint smell, unlike the repulsive odour of the fresh leaves and bark.

  • These are compact little bundles, at first of a dull yellow colour, until presently the florets fall off and leave the white woolly pappus of the seeds collected together, somewhat resembling the hoary hairs of age.

  • It is a bushy plant, which abounds in our rural districts, having silky stems and leaves, with small heads of dull yellow flowers, the whole plant being amara et aromatica.

  • It is a Composite herb of frequent growth on waste ground, being a bushy plant with silky stems, and collections of numerous small heads of dull yellow flowers.

  • Wax yellow, a dull yellow, resembling the natural color of beeswax.

  • Defn: Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown.

  • Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.

  • The color is dull yellow or greenish brown.

  • The colors are often dark, dull yellow brown or gray, with three lines on the cephalothorax and a middle dark stripe on the abdomen, with a light silvery stripe on each side.

  • The cephalothorax is dull yellow, with slightly darker lines in the middle and at the sides.

  • The cephalothorax is dull yellow, with a middle and two lateral stripes, but these are often absent in light specimens.

  • Young when fledged of a greyish-brown colour all over, the breast and abdomen being merely a little lighter than the rest; bill and claws dusky; tarsi and toes with their membranes dull yellow.

  • Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown.

  • The plasmodium of our species is white; as it approaches maturity a rosy metallic tinge supervenes, quickly changing to dull yellow or alutaceous.

  • Compressed air, directed on metal of a dull yellow heat, will soon considerably increase its temperature; you may easily burn a hole quite through a six-inch steel bloom by the method.

  • Continual beating it will quickly raise the temperature of the iron or steel; I have many times raised the heat of a piece in operation from a dull yellow to a brilliant welding pitch during the delivery of three or four blows.

  • This, at the moment of leaving the die, may be no more than a dull yellow, but by the time it falls to the ground it will be intensely hot and will throw off a shower of hissing sparks.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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