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  • adjective of something having the yellow color of sulfur

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Examples

  • When he stopped, a little sulfur-yellow butterfly landed on his back.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • When he stopped, a little sulfur-yellow butterfly landed on his back.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • When he stopped, a little sulfur-yellow butterfly landed on his back.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • When he stopped, a little sulfur-yellow butterfly landed on his back.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • They had a similar look to them - as if someone had crossed a dog with a serpent, getting something with a hound-shaped body, scaled skin, with the head a melding of viper and canine with sulfur-yellow eyes and fangs.

    Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • This time she saw it arrive-or rather, she didn't see it; there was nothing but empty street one minute, and the next minute it was there, all teeth and claws and sulfur-yellow eyeballs.

    Jinx High Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • All she could do was stare into those horrible, sulfur-yellow eyes, too numb to even think.

    Jinx High Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • Their hair stood on end despite being plastered down by the rain, and little blue lightning-snakes and sulfur-yellow balls ran down the stone and into the ground.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • In the northwest clumped sulfur-yellow sturmwolken together, but otherwise the sky was empty.

    The Trouble Twisters Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

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