English example sentences with "grey"

Learn how to use grey in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

All cats are grey in the dark.

We made Mr Grey chairman of the committee.

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

Mr Grey did not enjoy his job.

The teacher's name was Mr Grey.

Everything about him was grey.

"Who do you belong to?" Wrapped around his feet was a small cat. It was a fluffy grey striped cat.

Mr. Grey didn't enjoy his work.

Although he's young, he has a grey beard.

He had grey hair.

It's so grey out there that I can't see the mountains on the other side of the valley.

At night all cats are grey.

It is regarded as a grey area.

My suit is grey.

When candles are out, all cats are grey.

Why are some translations in grey?

The grey man appeared in the doorway.

The lamp is grey.

The elephant is grey.

Roger Ascham one day paying a visit to the amiable but unfortunate Lady Jane Grey found her employed in reading Plato while the rest of the family were engaged in a hunting party in the park.

Grey translations are indirect translations. In other words, they are translations of the translations, and not translations of the main sentence (the main sentence is the sentence in big letters).

We display grey sentences because they can be useful, but you should be careful. Their meaning may differ a little from the main sentence.

Her grey hair makes her look older than she is.

The "Grey Wolves" are a Turkish ultra nationalist movement, neofascist, anti-Kurd, that denies the genocide of the Armenian people.

The teacher's name was Mr. Grey.

As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love.

The grey cat can't climb off the tree.

All of your cats are grey.

He loved looking at grey sky with the sun peeking through the thick clouds.

I am going grey!

This pencil is not grey.

It's a legal grey area.

The sky was grey.

The landscape was dotted with green and grey shrubs.

The old man had a long grey beard.

At ten years old his hair turned grey.

Last summer's sky was invariably grey.

His head was grey.

Can you hurry and go buy grey bread from the baker? And make him cut it!

Can you quickly go and buy grey bread from the baker? And have it cut!

Do you like Earl Grey tea?

The car is grey.

Physical activities - from raking leaves to walking to the grocery store - can help seniors retain the grey matter in their brains.

Her head was grey.

His grey and lifeless eyes burned like two hot coals.

A platinum blonde is a woman whose hair is so blonde that it seems to have the same grey colour as platinum.

Does Tom like Earl Grey tea?

My friend disappeared like a grey mule in the fog.

His hair has turned grey.

His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated.

Worrying will send you grey, but it won't achieve anything.

When they entered the hut the cat was curled up on the floor. So they stroked her, and fed her with ham, and said to her: "Pussy-cat, grey pussy-cat, tell us how we are to get away from the witch?"

My computer is grey.

O grey pussycat, please don't purr. Grandpa might hear you.

As he pulled laundry from the dryer, Tom saw that because of static electricity a grey sock clung tenaciously to a facecloth.

The cloud is grey.

Dr. Pepperberg and her colleagues have found that Alex, an African grey parrot, can count up to 8.

Is that cat grey?

The father has grey eyes.

The grey goo engulfs everything.

His eyes were as red burning coals; long grey hair fell over his shoulders in matted coils; his garments, which were of antique cut, were soiled and ragged, and from his wrists and ankles hung heavy manacles and rusty gyves.

He was wonderfully good-looking, with his crisp brown hair, his clear-cut profile, and his grey eyes.

An old gentleman with gold spectacles and grey hair came into the room, and said, in a slight French accent, 'Have I the honour of addressing Monsieur Erskine?'

While attending Sunday mass, the grandmother wears a pink dress and a charming mantilla, and the grandfather, a grey suit with a white shirt.

Before morning he'd be up and down every chimney in New Amsterdam, filling the stout grey yarn stockings with toys, and apples, and ginger-bread, laughing and chuckling so all the while, that the laughs and chuckles didn't get out of the air for a week afterwards.

All theory, my friend, is grey, but green is life's glad golden tree.

Dionysophanes' hair was already turning grey, but he was tall and handsome, and could compare favourably with many young men.

The solitary window was so dirty that the light was hazy and uncertain, giving a dull grey tinge to everything, which was intensified by the thick layer of dust which coated the whole apartment.

There are swift-flowing rivers which dash through jagged cañons; and there are enormous plains, which in winter are white with snow, and in summer are grey with saline alkali dust.

In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life. There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement upon the dull, grey earth—above all, there is absolute silence.

My grandmother has grey hair.

Fade into grey.

He was a very tall, thin man, with a long nose like a beak, which shot out between two keen, grey eyes, set closely together and sparkling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.

Still steadily rising, we passed over a narrow granite bridge, and skirted a noisy stream which gushed swiftly down, foaming and roaring amid the grey boulders.

The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of Baskerville Hall.

He was a small, slim, clean-shaven, prim-faced man, flaxen-haired and lean-jawed, between thirty and forty years of age, dressed in a grey suit and wearing a straw hat.

The greater part of the letter was charred to pieces, but one little slip, the end of a page, hung together, and the writing could still be read, though it was grey on a black ground. It seemed to us to be a postscript at the end of the letter, and it said: ‘Please, please, as you are a gentleman, burn this letter, and be at the gate by ten o’clock.’ Beneath it were signed the initials L. L.

The sun was already sinking when I reached the summit of the hill, and the long slopes beneath me were all golden-green on one side and grey shadow on the other.

One great grey bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven. He and I seemed to be the only living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert beneath it.

Strewn here and there behold / arms, planks, lone swimmers in the surges grey, / and treasures snatched from Trojan homes away.

As he stepped into the circle of yellow light thrown by the lantern she saw that he was a person of gentlemanly bearing, dressed in a grey suit of tweeds, with a cloth cap.

The grey wolf is Italy’s unofficial national animal.

Sami saw someone in a grey hoodie standing by his car.

Sami has a grey cat.

On fly the barks o'er ocean. Near us frown / Ceraunia's rocks, whence shortest lies the way / to Italy. And now the sun gows down, / and darkness gathers on the mountains grey.

His jumper is grey.

It was a humid, grey summer day at the end of June.

"This," said he, taking a grey roll of paper from his bureau, "is the original of that secret treaty between England and Italy."

With his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with grey, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble.

This house mouse is grey.

When I looked up at him I found his keen, grey eyes fixed upon me with an amused expression.

The grey fox had a silver tongue. He was as clever as he was smart.

The other was about fifteen years younger, short, stout, ruddy-faced, and red-haired, with an open, resolute, and cheerful eye, to which careless and fearless freedom and inward daring gave fire and expression, notwithstanding its light grey colour.

At length Caleb, with a trembling hand, undid the bars, opened the heavy door, and stood before them, exhibiting his thin grey hairs, bald forehead, and sharp high features, illuminated by a quivering lamp which he held in one hand, while he shaded and protected its flame with the other.

Two flashes of lightning, following each other very closely, showed in the distance the grey turrets of Wolf's Crag, and, more nearly, the rollowing billows of the ocean, crested suddenly with red and dazzling light.

This flower is grey.

But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.

Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two. One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto he appeareth not. If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,) and he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

Mennad wondered why the milk was grey.

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