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Grey

[ US /ˈɡɹeɪ/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈe‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
  2. Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
  3. Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)

How To Use Grey In A Sentence

  • You skin looks a bit slack and grey. Life Without Work
  • So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
  • And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
  • Their clothes had become grey with washing. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was grey with pain, already almost a death mask and beginning to melt invisibly into the charnel of the killing field. WALL GAMES
  • In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass.
  • Flat lawns are formed into an abstract pattern that recalls tectonic fractures and fissures in the earth's surface, their edges defined by dark grey concrete retaining walls.
  • From his shiny, greasy, biker-looking jeans to his short, greying beard, he was muscle and bone.
  • Among the most desolate sandhills you may find in July acres of wax-white pyrola – like lilies of the valley splashed with pink – covering the plains between the lonely ridges of harsh, grey grass. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
  • He stared at her, his grey eyes lingering on her lips.
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