Example sentences for: gray

How can you use “gray” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Lincoln's hair was "black, still unmixed with gray, stiff, somewhat bushy, and had apparently been acquainted with neither brush nor comb that morning, after the disarrangement of the pillow."

  • The Bonferroni criteria contrasts indicate that specific pair comparisons do not yield a significant difference, although the contrasts for black/gray and black/blond are approaching significance.

  • friend not seen for years: gray whiskers around the boyish smile

  • and the belief that Americans are basically a good and just people--some of this stuff will make you weep" (Brent Staples, the New York Times Book Review ). Osha Gray Davidson, dissenting in the Los Angeles Times Book Review , accuses Wolfe of romanticizing the middle class: "a wet kiss masquerading as social science."

  • On a gray Beijing afternoon in May, I found myself back at Nantang Church, an otherwise nondescript building that rests on ground given to a Jesuit missionary by the emperor four centuries back.


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