Example Sentences

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The Met’s de facto house director these days, David McVicar, offered a grayly old-fashioned production of Verdi’s “Don Carlos.”

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2022

The gif that’s most often attached to Contagion tweets features Paltrow writhing grayly on a hospital bed.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2020

It was a little after lunchtime, and sun filtered grayly through the skylights.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

Outside, Porthmadog’s squat houses shrank away and Miss Wren’s mountain came into view, rising grayly above the hills.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

The frozen air glistened grayly up into heaven itself, he thought; the snow-covered streets were alive, noisy,—glad into their very cellars and shanties; the sun was sorry to go away.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various