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UK
/ɡɹˈeɪ/
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[ US /ˈɡɹeɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪ/ ]
NOUN
- United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
- American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
- English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
- English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
How To Use Gray In A Sentence
- A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
- She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.
- Some retailers, including Sears, have already held some "door-buster" early-morning sales, which makes Black Friday -- the day after Thanksgiving that's looked upon as a kick-off to the holiday shopping season -- a little "grayer," he said. Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed
- A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
- Yet this was all alive, in silver-gray, white, black, greens deep or bright and asparkle with remnant raindrops. The Boat of a Million Years
- I looked up into the sparkling eyes of a heavyset man with gray, unkempt hair and a white goatee.
- ‘Did you know that your eyes are beautifully … eh … greenish bluey graylike?’ Blonde, Black and Blood Red
- The last prisoner in the coffle was the tailor, a gray-haired, elderly man with a wrinkled face. The Magic of Krynn
- She unwound the curtain, then wet her fingers and patted his mussed gray hair.
- Gray is thought to be in hiding near the France/Italy border.