GRAY in a Sentence
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221 example sentences for GRAY, such as:
1. A fox may grow gray, but never good.
2. A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
3. She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
4. He stopped and chuckled as he tugged at his gray goatee.
5. His shoulders were sagging and his head bowed until his gray beard spread out fanlike on his chest.
2. A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
3. She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
4. He stopped and chuckled as he tugged at his gray goatee.
5. His shoulders were sagging and his head bowed until his gray beard spread out fanlike on his chest.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of GRAY
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gray
n. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
n. the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Andrew Hale was a ruddy man with a big gray moustache and a stubbly double-chin unconstrained by a collar; but his scrupulously clean shirt was always fastened by a small diamond stud.
2 The afternoon was drawing to an end, and here and there a lighted pane spangled the cold gray dusk and made the snow look whiter.
3 She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in gray broadcloth with a wide black cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
4 True, he never made love to her, nor did the clear gray eyes ever glow with that hot light Scarlett knew so well in other men.
5 The thick deep-gold lashes that set off the gray eyes of John Wilkes and Ashley were sparse and colorless in the faces of Honey and her sister India.
6 Her gray organdie dress, with its cherry-colored satin sash, disguised with its billows and ruffles how childishly undeveloped her body was, and the yellow hat with long cherry streamers made her creamy skin glow.
7 His gray eyes opened wide and their drowsiness disappeared in an intensity that Scarlett had never seen before.
8 The live oaks with their waving curtains of gray moss gave Scarlett the creeps and always brought to her mind Gerald's stories of Irish ghosts roaming in shimmering gray mists.
9 He was tall and gaunt and wore a pointed beard of iron gray, and his clothes hung on his spare figure as though blown there by a hurricane.
10 "Most of them would look a lot finer in gray uniforms and in Virginia," she said, and she did not trouble to lower her voice.
11 He stopped and chuckled as he tugged at his gray goatee.
12 But the doctor did look like a goat with his gray chin whiskers wagging away at a great rate, and with difficulty she stifled a giggle.
13 I am asking a sacrifice but a sacrifice so small compared with the sacrifices our gallant men in gray are making that it will seem laughably small.
14 He always referred to the soldiers as "our brave boys" and "our heroes in gray" and did it in such a way as to convey the utmost in insult.
15 His shoulders were sagging and his head bowed until his gray beard spread out fanlike on his chest.
Example Sentence:
1 Well, what of that? Suppose you find a brass pot with a hundred dollars in it, all rusty and gray, or rotten chest full of di'monds.
2 Occasional drops of rain slither through the silvery mist, and the white stones of the buildings and roads of Cyad are gray with moisture.
3 I know a woman whose first-floor rooms are very artistically furnished in blue and gray, whose boudoir is in rose and ivory, and whose sewing room is in softest gray.
4 It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods.
5 His aunt wept over him and asked him how he could go and break her old heart so; and finally told him to go on, and ruin himself and bring her gray hairs with sorrow to the grave, for it was no use for her to try any more.
6 A genuine London fog seems not like the heavy gray mist, as Dickens says, like "palpable brown air."
7 The President-elect followed in an open carriage drawn by six beautiful gray horses.
8 Black too is a color, and the deep ridges of persimmon tree bark are an almost-black striated with dark gray.
9 A fox may grow gray, but never good.
10 She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
11 A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.