How To Use slaty In A Sentence
- His face was the colour of the slaty sky, and the lines from nose to mouth had deepened. SLEEP WHILE I SING
- the slaty sky of dawn
- The slaty colour of Wolf's drawing is probably due to an incorrect conception of Hodgson's term grey, which he defines as a yellowish-grey. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
- Broad, irregular rolling to hilly valleys north of the Wisconsinan terminal moraine underlain by slaty shale and fine-grained sandstone and covered by Wisconsinan-age glacial drift. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
- There was a silence, during which he looked past me again at the window, reflecting the dawn in his slaty eyes. COASTLINERS
- I could barely see her in the dimness; the grey light beyond the doors had deepened to slaty blue. NIGHT SISTERS
- Well | | at the last came one that redde the tytle, it was wryten in laten with greate Romayne lettres, ye Greke was wryten with capytale lettres of Greke, whiche at the fyrst syght do apere to be capytale latê lettres, at thayr desyer I dyd expownde ye verses in laten, trãslatynge thaym word for word. The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion
- This cleavage is known as slaty cleavage, since it is most perfectly developed in fine-grained, homogeneous rocks, such as slates, which cleave to the thin, smooth-surfaced plates with which we are familiar in the slates used in roofing and for ciphering and blackboards. The Elements of Geology
- At one end of the miles of beach the sea is silvery grey, but along its length it deepens in tone and changes in colour until by the time it reaches the other end it is a deep slaty green. Country diary: South Uist
- -- Above ashy blue, slaty or pale mouse colour; albescent or yellowish ashy beneath; nasal appendage large, oblong, free at the tip, reaching to the base of the ears with a fold down the centre; tragus (_oreillon_) cordate, two-lobed, anterior long, narrow and pointed, posterior lobe half the height and rounded; muzzle truncated; under-lip cleft; wing membranes dark brown. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon