yellow card

noun

soccer

: a yellow card that a referee holds in the air to indicate that a player has broken the rules of the game and is being officially warned

Examples of yellow card in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But Gabriel Pec was tagged with a second yellow card four minutes later and forced to exit after being shown the automatic red card. —Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026

That’s when referee Rosendo Mendoza, after consulting with the VAR screen pitch-side, upgraded a yellow card received by Verde left back Guilherme Biro to a straight red, leaving Austin FC a man down for the rest of the night. —David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 7 Mar. 2026

Myung's goal came on a penalty with a right-footed shot to the bottom right corner after Bangladesh's Afida Khandaker was shown a yellow card for a foul. —ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026

The 25-year-old was shown a second yellow card in the 70th minute of the 1-0 defeat at the Emirates Stadium after a foul on Gabriel Martinelli. —Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026

Rhymes for yellow card

• bodyguard
• boulevard
• disregard
• asgard
• backyard
• barnyard
• blackguard
• bombard
• brickyard
• canard
• churchyard
• coastguard