‘‘Are you all right?—You look absolutely green’’

‘She glanced at Wesley, who was looking rather green at the sight of the long gash across the girl’s ribs and stomach.’

‘a green recruit fresh from college’

‘If everybody is too busy to show you what else to do and you’re too green to know how to find work on your own, start cleaning.’

‘green shoots’

‘It seems that the green, unripe berries do contain a harmful substance, but that this disappears as the fruits ripen.’

‘traditional, modern, and green funerals’

‘The source and production of green/alternative energies will of necessity be largely based in rural Ireland.’

‘The runs were graded like ski runs from green, the easiest, to black, the most difficult.’

‘By the last day, me and my fellow beginners were coasting (fairly) effortlessly down green and blue runs, starting to experiment with parallel turns and having a fantastic time.’

‘I didn’t like it one bit, seemed terribly like turning a knife in a very green wound.’

‘While people in the south of England favoured Wiltshire bacon smoked over oak or pine sawdust, people in the north liked ‘green bacon’ (unsmoked and often cured separately from the legs).’

‘If you try to burn green wood, the heat produced by combustion must dry the wood before it will burn, using up a large percentage of the available energy in the process.’

‘official Green candidates’

‘Its ideas resonate strongly with many other sections of the Green movement.’

‘a green salad’

‘Copious plates of pasta, fresh green salad and ripe peaches would follow.’

‘proposals that would smother green fields with development’

‘He said its scent on her skin reminded him of wide-open, green fields covered with sweet flowers.’

‘But when the green flag drops, they also compete against each other as hard as anybody else.’

‘At most junctions, the crossing time is just a few seconds. Also, vehicles, especially two-wheelers, begin to move even before the signal turns green.’

‘Quarks come in different varieties, and physicists whimsically give these the names of colors - red, green, and blue. This doesn’t mean that quarks really are red, green, or blue.’

‘The figure on the left shows a red quark and a green quark interacting by exchanging a gluon that carries the appropriate colours.’

‘her flashing green eyes’

‘the leaves are bright green’

‘clubs devoted to keeping green the memory of Sherlock Holmes’

‘The scenes on board INS Vikarant, shortly after the surrender ceremony, are still green in his memory.’

‘The car in front of me stalled and I missed the green.’

‘He came to a halt at the first set of traffic lights at the red light and he passed the second one on the green.’

‘the Greens’ remarkable 15 per cent vote’

‘If this was the case, we’d end up with the amusing sight of a parliament full of Lib Dems and Greens.’

‘a house overlooking the green’

‘The arts and crafts exhibition was held in the village hall, while refreshments were served in a marquee on the village green.’

‘a 60 ft putt on the last green’

‘On the giant scoreboard behind the green, he could see what he had long dreamt about - his own name on top, co-leader.’

‘two girls in red and green’

‘But Johnson’s latest performance in the red and green of Leicester showed that he still has a ravenous appetite for club rugby.’

‘major roads are marked in green’

‘He projected his own violent moods on to the canvas in red and green.’

‘that lovely canopy of green over Stratford Road’

‘The canopy of green around the hotel and the lake provides an interesting contrast with the rugged beauty of the sand and scrub beyond.’

‘eat up your greens’

‘Fill up one side of the plate with leafy greens and nonstarchy vegetables.’

‘he got hold of some bad green’

‘Finally he got hold of some bad green, as it’s called in the trade, and smoked too much of it.’

‘that’s a lot of green’

‘Home life is also happier for those who have some green in their pockets.’

‘When Hawkins missed a difficult green the colour finished hanging over a corner pocket and Parrott was left in a full ball snooker.’

‘He took green but rattled a difficult brown and Watkinson picked off brown, blue and pink to win 83-49.’

‘they will continue greening the many treeless and dusty suburbs’

‘Businesses should assert further control by cleaning and greening their sidewalks.’

‘tips on how to green your home’

‘Moreover, it is doubtful whether the new instruments for greening the CAP provide enough incentive to change the production methods of those farmers who damage the environment the most.’

‘the roof was greening with lichen’

‘He found the oasis, where spring water greened the fields of a small village.’