How To Use Grey-green In A Sentence
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Usually of a pale green or grey-green nephrite, they are worked to a high standard and are generally dated to the eighteenth century largely on stylistic grounds.
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Its leaves are slightly wrinkled, velvety and grey-green in colour, the flowers are pale lavender, boldly veined with deep violet.
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With grey-green glaze on both the interior and exterior, the decoration en barbotine, the exterior with five vertical bands of conical projections.
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I have to type this with one hand because in the other is my son, his blue-grey-green-brown eyes covered with gluey sleep cack, his chiseled jaw riddled with baby acne.
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To contrast and complement this, Helleborus argutifolius with its glaucous grey-green leaves would make a good frontage.
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Euphorbia wulfenii is in full bloom with sprawling stems covered in furry grey-green leaves and topped with heavy heads of lime-green flowers.
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Gilded Hawke is a variegated curly ivy with grey-green central colouring and gold margins.
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The eggs, two in number, of a dull grey-green, closely and in part confluently dashed with streaks of dusky brown.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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In the grey-green water we could dimly see a large, pale body beneath the grey fin.
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If I get up from my office desk and walk across the room I can see in the distance the twin towers of the Severn Bridge spanning the Bristol Channel and behind them the first grey-green tracings of the landscape of Wales.
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Inconspicuous flowers appear in spring followed by soft, downy, grey-green fruits.
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Romneya coulteri: sub-shrub with cup-shaped white flowers against ovate grey-green leaves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yesterday he was as soigné as it is possible for a golfer to be: polished brown shoes, brown trousers with the glove tucked into the back pocket when not in use, and a matching shirt and cap the subtle grey-green colour of a whitebeam leaf.
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The girl facing him was dressed in muddy breeches and a soft grey-green shirt.
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It's the same in the bilges and engine room, the chain locker, the staterooms, bridge and captain's quarters, just mounds of slimy, grey-green mud.
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The primeval pines up here are of gigantic size, rising from eighty to over a hundred feet, enormous in girth, and garlanded with hoary grey-green moss, the growth of centuries.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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Her camiknickers are made up of the same grey-green silk trimmed with black lace.
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Malone looked out at the grey-green featureless landscape.
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The glare of this virtual openness and semi-transparency is counterbalanced by the dark grey-green slate flooring and the solid rendered brick walls.
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The result looked like an insidious, grey-green growth lopped off an otherwise healthy young tree to protect its trunk.
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Even out of flower, it is attractive, with grey-green foliage and needlelike red thorns that contrast with the pale stems.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few men wore evening dress, but many more were in the hated grey-green uniform.
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The sun cast a golden radiance upon the grey-green waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
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If I get up from my office desk and walk across the room I can see in the distance the twin towers of the Severn Bridge spanning the Bristol Channel and behind them the first grey-green tracings of the landscape of Wales.
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The plant that has developed counts almost as a small shrub with grey-green evergreen leaves and, as the name Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’ suggests, mauve flowers.
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Then, suddenly, the "something" Mr. Barrymore had told us to look for, grew out of the horizon -- dim and mysterious, yet not to be mistaken; hyacinth-blue streaks that were pinnacles and campanili, bubbles that were domes, floating between the gold of the sunset and the grey-green of the tall grass, for no water was visible yet.
My Friend the Chauffeur
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A branching framework of silvergrey spires rises 90cm above lobed grey-green leaves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Romneya coulteri: sub-shrub with cup-shaped white flowers against ovate grey-green leaves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jägers wore grey-green rather than field-grey uniforms, and a flat-topped shako rather than a spiked helmet.
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Behind them, again, was the grey-green garden, and among the pear-shaped leaves of the escallonia fishing-boats seemed caught and suspended.
Jacob's Room
