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Recent Examples of ashy Hours later, Wootton’s family was eating dinner and watching the news when Reiner burst through the door, covered head to toe in thick, ashy soot. Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2025 The main difference is that talc is now absent in its formula to make ashy finishes a thing of the past for deeper skin tones. Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 23 Jan. 2025 More than 12,000 structures have been destroyed, many of them homes and businesses that are reduced to ashy foundation footprints. Ella Nilsen, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025 But the ongoing Eaton fire and its ashy aftermath don’t appear to be offering the ending the nursery’s owners had in mind. Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ashy
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Adjective
  • Similarly, it was called the white plague or white death – due to anemia from the disease, with people appearing pallid or chalky – leading to near-certain death.
    Karen Dobos, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The Russian invasion of Ukraine won Vladimir Putin a certain admiration in countries of the global South, as well as among MAGA Americans, while Joe Biden’s appeals to democratic values seemed pallid and hypocritical.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Appearing on my phone screen as a hooded figure against a pale blue sky, Kosinski takes my call from nearby his parents’ house in the foothills near Sacramento, pacing back and forth across a field.
    Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2025
  • At the top of the stairs stood a pale, dark-eyed girl about my age, presumably my noisy next-door neighbour.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As the trial got underway, her clients sat ashen at the defense table.
    J. David Goodman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2025
  • His skin, particularly his face, had an ashen appearance.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025

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“Ashy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ashy. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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