What is "canary-yellow"

Usage examples of "canary-yellow".

Those stolen evenings in Verrie Myers's canary-yellow Olds convertible her parents had given her as a surprise present for her sixteenth birthday.

In Verrie Myers's canary-yellow Olds convertible swinging into what was called the lower village from the hilly St.

Not yet sixteen, and so not yet in possession of the canary-yellow birthday convertible, Verrie Myers strained her sensitive relationship with Ken Fischer by hinting she'd be willing to date other boys, with cars, if he wouldn't drive her past the Erie County Detention Center at least once a week, after dark, so that Verrie could flash the car headlights as they approached the grim building, eliciting from its interior, not always or clearly, an answering sequence of flashes like Morse code, what was probably a hand-held mirror inside one of the barred windows.

We weren't envious of Verrie, we loved her car, the four-door canary-yellow Olds convertible her parents had given her for her sixteenth birthday.

In Verrie Myers's canary-yellow Olds convertible cruising lower Willowsville at dusk, at night, rain-pelting November wind, in yellow-tinctured fog, in a brisk falling snow, like clumps of white blossoms, in subzero crystalline air that froze your eyelashes, like a ghost ship under a spell to forever cruise the lower village, Water Street south of Main, in Verrie's beautiful birthday car, we smoked.

We parked Trish's pale yellow Acura which reminded us of Verrie's beautiful canary-yellow Olds convertible of our girlhoods.

And no more than a hundred yards from our modestly ostentatious rental, Leroy Purcell's beach palace occupied a sandy, picketed lot just one left and two rights from our own canary-yellow front door.

I tossed the small toilet kit into my duffel and carried my little hobo bundle down the rented teak stairs and put it next to our canary-yellow door.

She sailed into the supermarket decked out in an amazing canary-yellow pantsuit.

Attired in a Geneva gown of canary-yellow silk and a sequined headpiece similar to that seen on the statues of Krishna, he looked like the rising sun.