[
US
/ˈɡɹeɪ/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈeɪ/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈeɪ/ ]
NOUN
- United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
- Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
- 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
- Ivaric raced down to the stables, shouted at a groom to saddle his grey horse Maila, and smiled as he saw his father sitting in a shady arbour at one end of the courtyard, looking thoughtful.
- You see them muttering together in corners, their skin grey and baggy and their unbrushed hair matted with Playdoh.
- 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.