How to use grey in a sentence

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• He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.From the entry root
• And my eyes are weird green grey. More greeny blue in daylight.From the entry greeny
• Flosses are soft, and grey from the female and black from the male.From the entry floss
• The horizon was distantly visible in the grey light of dawn.From the entry distantly
• His hair was mostly black, with an intersprinkling of premature grey.From the entry intersprinkling
• Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.From the entry boom
• The orange and blue walls of the sitting room were much brighter than the dull grey walls of the kitchen.From the entry bright
• It exists in a grey area between legal and illegal.From the entry grey area
• The arena is grey with white beams.From the entry arena
• The bride wore a grey going-away costume.From the entry costume
• D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so grey?From the entry d'ye
• He fell from the 5th floor. There is grey matter on the path behind his head. I'm afraid he's dead.From the entry grey matter
• We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.From the entry oppress
• The chimney gave forth a cloud of grey smoke.From the entry give forth
• The paperless walls of the bedroom looked grey and cheerless.From the entry paperless
• There was a grey, Septembery dampness in the air.From the entry Septembery
• Diana monkeys are generally black or dark grey, but have a white throat, crescent-shaped browband, ruff and beard.From the entry browband
• Although amber is most famously yellow, red amber, black amber, grey amber and even blue amber also exist.From the entry grey amber
• She wore a Quakerish grey dress.From the entry Quakerish
• A dusty bottle of multipurpose cleaning spray, blue roll, a sad grey J-cloth, furniture polish.2023, Alice Slater, Death of a Bookseller. From the entry blue roll
• Rain clouds smirred the horizon, but for now the grey mists above were content to drift on.2022, John MacKay, The Road Dance. From the entry smirr
• Even Doctor Lam doesn't know why all home-building blocks look grey to me.2020 December 27, Tan Jie Ying, “"The Colour of Glass"”, in Home Groan: A NutMag Anthology, Malaysian Writers Society. From the entry you ask me, I ask who
• They were small black and grey things with exposed motherboards and cracked cases.2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 8. From the entry motherboard
• You know he ain't hatfishing – there's a glorious grey mane under that woolen number.2018 December 5, “'Fuckboy' Daniel Day-Lewis is a late entry for best look of 2018”, in Dazed. From the entry hatfish
• At her first staff meeting all the grey hairs are fumfering about declining numbers.2017 February 10, Jordan Hoffman, “The seven most wonderfully ridiculous moments in Fifty Shades Darker”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry fumfer
• Wrapped in cadet grey jackets, snare drummers played in harmony with bass saxophonists.2017 March 17, “Thousands Flood Fifth Avenue for NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade”, in NBC New York. From the entry cadet grey
• The wretch 'Grizled with hair' (meaning 'Having grey hair with hair') is a typical Durfey miscoinage.2017, John McVeagh, Thomas Durfey and Restoration Drama. From the entry miscoinage
• Cultural appropriation is a difficult subject to navigate, because in literature appropriation is full of grey areas.2016 November 25, Neve Mahoney, “Question your motives when appropriating minority voices”, in Eureka Street. From the entry sensitivity reader
• Of these, 24 lesions involved the cortical grey matter and were hence defined as leukocortical lesions.2015 July 18, “Magnetic Resonance Phase Alterations in Multiple Sclerosis Patients with Short and Long Disease Duration”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry leukocortical
• DLPFC (grey region) innervates VTA nuclei (pink) located in the midbrain through corticomesencephalic glutamatergic projections (red).2015 December 5, “Stochastic Mesocortical Dynamics and Robustness of Working Memory during Delay-Period”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry corticomesencephalic
• In light (vision) the admix results in white and in pigments the admix results in grey.2014, Michael Sandborn, Nataliya Vatsyayana, A Rosetta Stone: The Universal Harmonic Language Model, page 48. From the entry admix
• At the very bottom of the screen are nine grey boxes.2014, BradyGames, Build, Discover, Survive! Mastering Minecraft Strategy Guide, →ISBN. From the entry hotbar
• India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 12. From the entry run
• There are grey Grecian tops and a light, sheer, silver cardigan.2012, Melanie Calvert, Freycinet, page 105. From the entry knit
• Stylish dark grey tailored trousers, silver thongs and shiny jet-black stilettos.2012, Melanie Calvert, Freycinet, page 105. From the entry knit
• A pair of grey, flannel track pants outlined the lad′s bottom very nicely indeed.2011, Ken Smith, Run Naked, Run Free, page 66. From the entry track pants
• Here the original drawing is shown in grey and the infilled tracing in black.2011, Andrew Haslam, Lettering: A Reference Manual of Techniques. From the entry infill
• A blue silver tabby has paw pads and nose leather to be dark blue to slate grey.2009, Elektra Hammond, Bengals Illustrated: The Christmas issue, October-December 2009. From the entry nose leather
• The grey or hog pea was the most common field pea in 18th century England.2008, Slack, Susan, “Farmer's Market Report: Dixie Lee Peas”, in Taste of California. From the entry hog-pea

Meaning of grey

1. adjective Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
2. adjective Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

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Questions about grey in a sentence

How do you use grey in a sentence?

Grey is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.”

What is a short sentence with grey?

“She wore a Quakerish grey dress.”

What does grey mean?

Grey means commonwealth standard spelling of gray.