Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective pale gray; ash-colored.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a light shade of grey
- adjective of a light grey
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Examples
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They laughed when they flew over Connemara, where the wild, greedy Atlantic takes long, blue bites out of the green land, and that laugh alone destroyed a field of yellowing oats, turning it ash-grey.
show me how to lie cristalia 2009
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Their porcelain-white necks are revealed as two slender pale parallel lines against the ash-grey water.
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The Wellesley coach, who was red-faced just a moment before, turns ash-grey when he sees the traditional Japanese swords borne by the yakuza.
Girls U-10 Soccer Yakuza Con Chapman 2011
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From an ash-grey sky finely-wrought snowflakes descended, fluttering angularly in the calm air like the scraps of paper that Americans pour over their heroes – God was blessing the Revolution – and fighter planes flew overhead in formation, while others flew low over the highest towers of Russian history.
Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009
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It quickly becomes a representation of something entirely other, when a door appears overnight, a door which opens into an ash-grey corridor that cannot possibly be there given that the door has appeared in an exterior wall.
Top Three Reads - 2004 Hal Duncan 2005
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It quickly becomes a representation of something entirely other, when a door appears overnight, a door which opens into an ash-grey corridor that cannot possibly be there given that the door has appeared in an exterior wall.
Archive 2005-01-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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The prisoners, ash-grey, gazed with black, glittering eyes, making not a sound.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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There are dead that sit under the trees, watching with ash-grey eyes for their victims.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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He had dreamed about her countless times, on that same staircase, with that same blue dress and that same movement of her ash-grey eyes, without knowing who she was or why she smiled at him.
The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz 2001
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His skin was an irregular brown, or maybe even dark ash-grey, and it was only as Steff drew nearer and caught a glimpse of his profile behind a gap in his crusty hair that it became apparent that the man was white.
Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998
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