Gray

//ɡɹeɪ//

"Gray" in a Sentence (21 examples)

It's very gray outside.

Some English words have two spellings - "gray" and "grey", for example.

That is to say, he was old and gray and tired.

The man must be over sixty, for his hair is gray.

Miss Gray told the boy to hold his tongue while she was speaking.

That child's constant screaming gives me gray hairs.

That gray building?

Mr Gray was the first man that arrived.

At first they drove through streets of small, gray houses.

My office is on the fourth floor of that gray six-story building.

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the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation

Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace More time than might make grey the infant world, Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […]

In a subculture that idealizes youth, being gay and gray does not exactly make one a hot ticket. Older gays and lesbians often relegate themselves to separate and unequal meeting places.

the gray dollar

February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.

My hair is beginning to gray.

the graying of America

It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular.

Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray.

Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.

In Wyoming, a GOP state senator forwarded an FGA draft bill to Secretary of State Chuck Gray that would prohibit sending out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms.

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