grey
adjective
a variant of gray.
greyly
-
a word derived from
grey.
Example Sentences
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The urban "masses" lived on greyly in the crumbling cities, without even cigarettes to solace their degradation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
—They went forth to battle, Mr O'Madden Burke said greyly, but they always fell.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
He lowered himself into a chair, and he was still there, motionless before a dead fire, when morning dawned greyly.
From Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans
