grayish

How To Use grayish In A Sentence

• Looking at the greyish-green sea streaked with white waves was a good antidote, as indeed the grand and infinite was always.
• Inside they found a black-grayish basalt mummiform sarcophagus coated with a layer of earth and potsherds affixed to the lid with plaster. Czech Egyptologists Open Shaft Tomb, Identify Royal Burial at Abusir
• Stems from twelve to fifteen inches high; leaves lyrate, the terminal lobe round; flowers small, in erect, loose, terminal spikes, or groups; the seeds are small, wrinkled, of a grayish color, and retain their vitality three years. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
• Most artists' canvases are linen (made from flax, Linum usitatissimum), a greyish brown cloth which is strong and hard-wearing.
• The ore is mineralogically martite schist, and the enclosing rocks are grayish, greenish and pinkish siliceous schists, of probable eruptive origin. North Carolina and its Resources.
• Teeth naturally get duller as we age and certain medications taken as a child, such as tetracycline, can give teeth a grayish hue. CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2004
• The horn becomes greyish brown, short, strongly downcurved.
• The birds, as well as those of the Nurtung river, are the water-ouzel, the greyish-blue water-chat, the red and black ditto with a white head - top, and the black bird, _durn-durns_ or bird producing that cry occurs, but not in great numbers. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
• A lump of soft, ochrey red-brown ironstone, coated with a thin layer of greyish white substance. The Land of Midian
• The process is characterized by dirty grayish or ash-gray-colored maculae on the skin of the trunk and limbs.