How to Use gray in a Sentence

gray

1 of 3 adjective

• What will you do when you are old and gray?
• My friends have all gone gray.
• It was a gray winter day.
• Then a man in a gray suit with a shock of white hair reached the dais.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• The group fled the scene in a gray Acura with no front license plate.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 5 May 2023
• Clark stood for a long time in the lot, wearing a gray T-shirt and vest in the icy cold wind.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2023
• He was last seen wearing a blue coat, blue jeans and gray loafers.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2023
• The person who passed the bill was in a gray sedan with tinted windows.
  — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2023
• Any hair can turn gray, and that goes for pubic hair, too.
  — Tracee Cornforth, Verywell Health, 1 Mar. 2024
• Those of us with gray hair and 65 to 70% of the nation's wealth should be on the front lines of the fight for climate justice.
  — The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
• The gray bottle disappeared from the sidelines, and for now, the sticky pad has the hearts and soles of players across the N.B.A.
  — Kris Rhim, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• Black’s prime for fall and winter, though the gray, blue, and pink versions are cool, too.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 14 Oct. 2023
• Pick up this gray platform pair that’s only $30 for the next few hours.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Flanking the white stripe on the top and bottom are dark gray, light gray, and yellow.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 13 Dec. 2023
• To us, gray and plain and empty has a certain beauty to it.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 May 2023
• The child, whose clothing and face were gray with ash, cried as a man wiped the blood from their face, according to the video.
  — Hala Gorani, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• In the middle is a black and gray rendition of the American flag.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 10 June 2023
• The backsplash was edged with dark gray grout to impart the look of natural stone.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2023
• Pieces come in chic colorways such as deep olive, a dusty rose, black and gray.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023
• Ronnie is like the dark gray cloud that kind of came through and f---ed everything up.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 30 Dec. 2023
• So does the hair and makeup team, who’ve shaved his trademark widow’s peak and let the gray show through in his beard.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
• This set comes in five colors: navy, wine, charcoal, light gray, and oat.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2023
• Our colors were focused on red, gray, black, white and blue.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
• The sale even includes two colorways to suit any style: slate (gray) and ink (navy).
  — Dan Michel, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2023
• Made of 100% cedar with a gray finish, this pergola should last for years to come.
  — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2023
• The game started under a thicket of silver and gray clouds.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• This fanny pack comes in 12 stylish colors, from onyx to camel, dune, dark moss, heather gray, and storm.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Shop the frame in two neutral colors: Gravel (dark gray) and Sea Salt (white).
  — Karen I. Chen, wsj.com, 17 Nov. 2023
• Another has a colorful scene of the rural Charles Town area severed by a smoky black and gray landscape of steel towers and a coal plant.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
• Synthetic content is flooding search engines and social media like a kind of gray goo, all in hopes of making a quick buck.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024

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gray

2 of 3 noun

• Of course this brings us to the big question: What’s the new gray?
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• At the start of the pandemic, Ms. LaFlamme hid the gray with spray dye.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• The bold gray one jumps in the bin and rolls around at lightning speed.
  — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
• The Venu 3 comes in black and white, while the 3S will come in black, french gray, sage, pink, and ivory.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2023
• This deep gray brings a hint of blue for a bit of cool drama.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
• The brown of his eyes was faded, ringed with cloudy gray; my pity flared and died.
  — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• There’s terror in his eyes, and his skin grays by the second.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• The yellow stripes on the ceiling make the whole room pop, while the grays mellow things out just a touch.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
• Cons The shade range doesn’t include as many light shades, grays, or red tones.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• The viewers come in neutral shades of gray and sepia, as well as in capri blue.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• Looking for a gray like Gabrielle Union's to give it a try yourself?
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 1 Mar. 2024
• No heroes and villains, no black and white, but shades of gray.
  — Richard Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• In the middle photo, her hair is down around her face, and the grays are hidden.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• The palette ranged from neon greens and subdued grays to somber black tones.
  — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
• If it’s not done precisely, the gray can bleed into the stars, and the dial ends up in the waste bin.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2023
• With that said, the Full Sun’s blacks aren’t as deep, so dark objects are bright and tend to look more like grays.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• The show is meant to represent and be about the gray between two pillars.
  — Erik Piepenburg, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• Unlike the iX Flow, though, the i Vision Dee can shift beyond shades of gray.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2023
• There’s no black and white solution to this issue, there’s a lot of gray.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
• In this first hull, there’s a Miami Beach vibe with cool shades of ice blue, cream and soft gray.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2023
• From olive green to dusty mauve to heather gray, the color options are pretty great.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2023
• The sky was a sort of half-dawn gray, and the forecast was for the snow to continue until 6 p.m. and maybe beyond.
  — Byron York, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Their coats are usually brown and tan mixed with gray and black.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2023
• There are dark bags under his eyes and specks of gray in his long beard and thinning brown hair.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2023
• Two of the long-legged birds — one pink and one gray — were photographed wading in the shallow waters of a park lake.
  — Brendan Rascius, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• This is the only box dye that completely covered the grays.
  — Jenna Clark, Women's Health, 17 Feb. 2023
• In fact, the study released today confirms that rooms painted dark gray can help sell your home for more, to the tune of $2,512.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 20 June 2023
• All around her are enormous boulders in varying shades of gray.
  — Ben Huff, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• Think skinny glasses, loafers with knee-high sheer socks, and elevated basics in a palette of grays and browns.
  — Channing Smith, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2024
• According to vehicle registration records reviewed by The Washington Post, the car was sold earlier this year and repainted white from dark gray.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024

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gray

3 of 3 verb

• As the stems age, the bark thickens and fades to gray or brown.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
• And the Chucks go from maroon low-tops to gray high-tops.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 2 Aug. 2023
• The hair of the man wearing them is starting to gray, too.
  — Murat Oztaskin, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2020
• When the rest of the world is graying, young Africans will form a growing part of the workforce of the future.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• But as the years progress, his joints will stiffen and his muzzle will gray.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• May gray and June gloom could be even gloomier this year.
  — Lauryn Schroeder, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
• The graying couple raised their right hands in the children’s courthouse, as the judge swore them in.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• Stick with the Classics Use a neutral hue such as brown, black, or gray for a look that will withstand the test of time.
  — Sydney Price, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Dec. 2022
• Neil McArthur is tall, with a boyish swoop of graying hair and glasses.
  — Sam Lipsyte, Harper's Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
• Same long beard with a few graying hairs, same retro clothing.
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Red-winged blackbirds lay pale blue-green to gray eggs with black or brown markings in their marsh nests.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
• Toners can be used on all colors and textures, from black to gray and white hair.
  — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 10 Sep. 2023
• May gray and June gloom are under threat by climate change.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
• There are so many people on a daily basis that are not making it to the age where their hair starts to gray.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2022
• The menus and venues have changed, but many of the patrons remain the same save for graying hair and nature's timelines on their smiling faces.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 25 May 2023
• There were soon-to-be dads, who looked young enough to still live under their own father’s roof and others whose hair had grayed and thinned.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2023
• Stripes, houndstooth, and plaid fabric patterns come in a color range from classic black and navy to gray and wine.
  — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Study links graying hair to stem cells getting stuck, unable to color new hair growth.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
• That helmet could stay in a redesign, and a red facemask, as opposed to gray, would look great with the iconic logo.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
• Best of all, the set comes in a total of nine color options, from basics like black, beige, and gray to vibrant blue and yellow.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Nov. 2023
• Then, Detective Klein spotted a lanky, graying man in a white T-shirt and gym shorts walking out of the building.
  — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• Your stylist will be able to consult on the best cut for your face shape and your path to gray, so be sure to take full advantage of her expertise.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 22 June 2023
• Its steel mills once covered the sky in enough soot that men needed to take spare white shirts to work because their button downs would turn to gray by lunch.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
• Penn first visited Ukraine in the fall of 2021, and the country’s optimism for their new leader had faded to gray.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• At sixty-three, Hand is lean and slight, with graying ginger stubble.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• Davis appeared in Clark County Court Thursday with a graying beard and in a blue jail jumpsuit and shackles.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2023
• Polland, who has a cascade of graying hair, explained why he was chosen for the honor.
  — Ismail Ibrahim, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• The hues range from bright purple jacaranda trees and stunning hot pink city sunsets to gray concrete structures and dark city streets.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 15 June 2022
• There are two sauna options to choose from—infrared or steam—and the steam version is available in black with a blue zipper or gray with a black zipper.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2023
• One assailant, wearing black gloves and a graying black beard, stood on a third-floor apartment balcony and, as deputies came closer, threw a Molotov cocktail at two white cars parked below.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024