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  • adjective of brown tinged with grey

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Examples

  • Two days later, the rig's sinking set off a gray-brown geyser of crude oil, which eventually spewed 4.9 million barrels (205.8 million gallons), about 19 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.

    Six months after the spill, BP's money is changing the gulf as much as its oil David A. Fahrenthold 2010

  • Two days later, the rig's sinking set off a gray-brown geyser of crude oil, which eventually spewed 4.9 million barrels (205.8 million gallons), about 19 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.

    Adrift in oil, then money David A. Fahrenthold 2010

  • Thick claylike sludge oozed gray-brown from the wound.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • I pick at the lump of gray-brown casserole on my tray.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • I pick at the lump of gray-brown casserole on my tray.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • Well, how does an ordinary house sparrow, then, manage to attract a female with his simple gray-brown plumage?

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • Thick claylike sludge oozed gray-brown from the wound.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • Well, how does an ordinary house sparrow, then, manage to attract a female with his simple gray-brown plumage?

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • I pick at the lump of gray-brown casserole on my tray.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • Well, how does an ordinary house sparrow, then, manage to attract a female with his simple gray-brown plumage?

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

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