Example Sentences

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Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now 58, looking more greyly senatorial than his senatorial brother, Dick Byrd will have technical control of the Navy's trident expedition.

From Time Magazine Archive

The urban "masses" lived on greyly in the crumbling cities, without even cigarettes to solace their degradation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dawn was coming in greyly through a slender arrow-slit, and with it ever and again the glow from some mountain out of sight, which was shooting forth spasmodic bursts of fire.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

The golden fields of wheat spread round it like a sea, and the ancient house stood up greyly and lonely like a thing accursed.

From The Solitary Farm by Hume, Fergus