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Recent Examples of grayish On a grayish Thursday afternoon in the East Village, Alan Cumming can be found at — where else? — Club Cumming. Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025 After digging, detectives found adipocere, a grayish wax or oil that a body emits when decomposing. Yasmeen Saadi, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Dec. 2024 Warning signs for an overdose might include lips and/or fingertips turning blue, pale or grayish skin, unresponsiveness, limpness, slow or stopped breathing and loud snoring, according to the health department. Brennan Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov. 2024 Taylor works out of a squat, grayish building on a residential street near the railroad tracks. Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for grayish
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Adjective
  • The gunman, described as Hispanic and wearing a grey hoodie, dark pants and white shoes, ran off down E. Houston St. No arrests have been made.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The pair were seen out hand in hand in Milan earlier in the day too, with Steinfeld in an oversized grey trench coat and Allen in a black sweatshirt.
    Staff Author, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The color palette presented deep hues of gray, burgundy, chocolate, and classic navy, in addition to the brand’s signature ivory, accents of yellow, orange, and mint green in knitwear.
    WWD, WWD, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The tips were a deep, inky black shade, which slowly faded into charcoal gray, pale gray, and a smoky white at the base.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Below it, Måneskin bassist Victoria De Angelis played an upbeat DJ set, wearing a silver party dress from the collection, attracting as much attention as the cool girls who joined her at the end for a dance finale.
    Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Police said there are three male suspects, and that one had been seen fleeing the scene in a silver car while wearing a black balaclava.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025

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“Grayish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grayish. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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