How To Use Gray-green In A Sentence
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There stood our granddaughter, and in her gray-green eyes and impudent grin I saw the reflection of our Christmas Boy.
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These gray or gray-green plants live on the branches and trunks of the trees, but they are not parasitic.
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His predilection for gray-greens, gray-pinks, pale ochers, browns, blacks and a luminous cobalt blue call up archaic Mediterranean origins, rusticated walls and early Italian frescoes.
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Mr. Marden distilled the basic elements of the image into slablike planes of gray-green (background), gray-gray (garments) and grayed pink (flesh).
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Nuanced verdure, brick reds and tempered whites, play against tints of calcined blues and gray-greens, broadcast beyond the paintings' modest confines.
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The miles upon miles of open gray-green country, treeless, hedgeless, houseless, swoop toward one another with the strangest sinuosities and rifts and knobs of volcanic earth, till at last they sink in faint mists, only to rise again in pink and blue distances, so far off, so pale and aërial, that they can scarcely be distinguished from the atmosphere itself.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
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The basket-flower has oblong leaves and rose-coloured, compact heads of disk… basket-of-gold (Aurinia, or Alyssum, saxatile), ornamental perennial plant, of the mustard family, with golden-yellow clusters of tiny flowers and gray-green foliage.
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In a moment more I saw I was mistaken, for at the throttle was a uniformed soldier, and another comrade in his gray-green costume was shoveling coal into the furnace.
In the Claws of the German Eagle
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From the top one of the ridges such as billowed like swells of the sea that gray-green, treeless plain, Morgan looked back.
Trail's End
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An odd observation post, neither asea nor ashore, and to make the confusion of elements more complete, the gunners whose guns barked continually from just behind it were sailors of the Italian Navy, dressed not in blue, but in military gray-green.
World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.
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The hills rose in soft gray-green slopes around them, and she knew that, deep in this backland, they were coming close upon her secret grove.
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Ben a hundred feet away, rising from the gray-green lake water, shaking the spume from his body.
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Rhea pressed her hands against the trunk of a tree, it's bark smooth and gray-green.
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Guangdong province changed the gray-green uniforms to a supposedly more inviting blue.
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His gray-green eyes sparkled with laughter and mirth, as he slung an arm around Jess, his hand teasing her hair affectionately.
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Eurasian herb having loose heads of button-shaped white flowers and long gray-green leaves that cause sneezing when powdered.
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Afraid someone will pounce upon me in the darkness, or tortured deathlike Mom, deprived of her life-giving medication, and in her dead moldy, gray-green shroud will come back again.
Jay's Journal
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In the patio, the heart of the U-shaped house, she let seeds of wild grama grass, gray-green sagebrush, and jimsonweed sprout.
Portrait of An Artist
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One antiqued gray-green shape suggests a Japanese stone lantern, while its surface mimes an aerial view of a meandering river.
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The boojum and his slithy toves tore this apart, and for those who do not enjoy gray-green secretions on the floor, Hans Oeschger did the honors in Environmental Science & Pollution Research 2 1 1995, pp. 60-61 as did and so did Eli a bit, on the way to ripping a new one for S.
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Slate is a dense, porous, fine-grained rock that has a natural, generally gray-green color.
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One antiqued gray-green shape suggests a Japanese stone lantern, while its surface mimes an aerial view of a meandering river.
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The clay frames were later bisque-fired and the students applied a gray-green velvet underglaze to them.
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She could see the government barge still tied to its dock, its red enamel and gilt trim as brilliant as a flower in the gray-green riverscape.
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The slippers are gray-green cable-knit and the marabou is a frilly hot pink.
The Kitchen Daughter
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There gas Sam, short for Samanthagray-green eyes and a Southern accent.
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There were clumps of cholla and other cactus, and the native gray-green chamiso bushes one saw everywhere.
The Turquoise Mask
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Above us, among the stones of the slope, hang bunches of Christmas fern; around the foot of the trees we uncover trailing clusters of gray-green partridge vine, glowing with crimson berries; we rake up the prince's-pine, pipsissewa, creeping-Jennie, and wintergreen red with ripe berries -- a whole bouquet of evergreens, exquisite, fairy-like forms that later shall gladden our Christmas table.
The Hills of Hingham
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I was way in the background, hugging the silk of the walls, looking past a sea of fancy shoulders against the gray-green boiserie.
THE DIAMOND
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Ben a hundred feet away, rising from the gray-green lake water, shaking the spume from his body.
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