Example sentences for: grays

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

  • The kinds of things Johnson reveled in--locker-room talk and stiff belts of whiskey, the "muted grays" of the Senate's well-turned compromises, even his own hard-earned influence and wealth--were the kinds of things against which the Harvard-educated Kennedy defined his very identity.

  • Night has fallen, and Mischief opts for flinty grays and blacks, the city-slickness and palpable sexuality of Cronenberg's Crash and Verhoeven's Basic Instinct . Clever camera work tilts the asphalt, giving the spot some depth and visual interest.

  • Pi is in genuine black-and-white--all the grays have been cooked out of the images.

  • For a few hundred dollars, he was willing to go all the way, and replace the grays of a photograph with painted colors.

  • To produce his bizarre painting The Courtesan (1887), van Gogh enlarged the traced image, replaced the subdued blacks and grays of the kimono with bright complementary reds and greens, and added a fantasy Japanese background of storks and frogs borrowed from other Japanese prints.


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