yellow-painted

• “British journalists who were there for the Champions League third qualifying round tie between Dinamo Bucharest and Manchester United in 2004 remember huddling in the rickety press box, wondering what would happen if the lightning that was flashing around the sky hit the metal roof which was joined to the metal desks and the metal seats by yellow-painted metal struts.”

  The Guardian: Romania's stadium for next year's Europa League final is in trouble

• “It's possible that, like me, the gulls are curious to know what an owl might be doing out here in the middle of the Irish Sea, though I can't help wondering if the tangled mess of yellow-painted girders, impossibly twisting pipes and corrugated iron jutting out of the waves doesn't also just remind them of a giant nest on stilts.”

  The Guardian: A working life: The gas rig technician

• “El pulled a chunk of yellow-painted wood from the ball of his foot.”

  CHAIRS • by Samantha Henderson

• “Feld stares as another Monster truck streaks from a tunnel and into the main arena, going vertical as it crashes over a yellow-painted Chevrolet Monte Carlo that serves as a junk car.”

  The Washington Post: The man behind the 'Greatest Show on Earth'

• “Right in front of Willie Sewell's yellow-painted house, the hard road quits being hard road for a generous mile and becomes the heart of Eatonville," Hurston wrote in a five-paragraph section in the WPA guide.”

  The Washington Post: Following the dust tracks: Touring Florida through the eyes of Zora Neale Hurston

• “In Talbot Road he skirted the yellow-painted concrete wall, thickly defaced with red and blue graffiti, and, superstitiously, stopped himself from looking up until he was directly under her balcony.”

  Simon & Schuster: Portobello

• “< P class = MsoNormal style = "MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0. 5in" > I found a room a few blocks from the beach — yellow-painted cinder-block building, Indian clerk, shag rug and furniture orange and puke-green like a sixties nightmare.”

  Fictionaut: Birds

• “Prospective victims, it is suggested, were hand-picked from the “younger, fitter captives”, and were then fed well and monitored by doctors until they were brought to the makeshift operating theatre, identified as a yellow-painted house near the town of Burrel.”

  Is New Probe Into Organ-Trafficking Claims Justified?

• “This is just past the long, high, narrow, yellow-painted bridge over the Rio Grande south of Capomal.”

  Road from Mazatlan to San Blas to PV--

• “Each of their black coffins has a yellow-painted face.”

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