Definitions
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- adjective of something having the yellow color of sulfur
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Examples
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When he stopped, a little sulfur-yellow butterfly landed on his back.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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When he stopped, a little sulfur-yellow butterfly landed on his back.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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When he stopped, a little sulfur-yellow butterfly landed on his back.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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When he stopped, a little sulfur-yellow butterfly landed on his back.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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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
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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
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All she could do was stare into those horrible, sulfur-yellow eyes, too numb to even think.
Jinx High Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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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
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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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