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- adjective
comparative form ofyellow : moreyellow
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Examples
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Between the three phones, there's a noticeable difference in display color temperature, much like we saw with the iPhone and iPhone 3G -- the Storm and Curve have a noticeably "yellower" hue than the Bold.
Engadget 2009
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Between the three phones, there's a noticeable difference in display color temperature, much like we saw with the iPhone and iPhone 3G -- the Storm and Curve have a noticeably "yellower" hue than the Bold.
Engadget 2009
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And, yeah, I had to work in the morning, but hearing you exasperate with the subtle lectures on yellower teeth and chimney kisses was worth the oncoming exhaustion.
RailRoads Johnny Dantonio 2010
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It's bigger and yellower and has twice the potassium of the next guy's banana, but then somebody always shows up with chocolate and you're screwed again.
Banana Republic Phoebe Wilcox 2011
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"Imagine, if you will," he said, "that we are not in a dank and mossy crypt, but in a room of gold ... that warm rays make the air softer and yellower than butter; that you breathe not this base, black, wet mist, but a sparkling bronze infusion that has been mellowed by its constant reverberation within walls of pure gold."
Drunk On Color Heather McDougal 2009
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Whenever I returned to the store the pages of what remained had grown yellower probably along with me until they vanished completely.
Fortress of Collectibles Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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"Imagine, if you will," he said, "that we are not in a dank and mossy crypt, but in a room of gold ... that warm rays make the air softer and yellower than butter; that you breathe not this base, black, wet mist, but a sparkling bronze infusion that has been mellowed by its constant reverberation within walls of pure gold."
Archive 2009-05-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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People who complain about the blueness of fluorescents often don't realize that incandescent light is significantly yellower than daylight!
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The next page, yellower than the first, was also from the front of the Times, Friday, January 31, 1992.
The Hanging Tree Bryan Gruley 2010
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You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care, and you waited until your boot or finger-nail got yellow, then yellower and yellower all the time.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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