Example Sentences

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"I love seeing colour in the greyness of winter. I really wanted a particularly colourful collection that was very embroidered, something warm."

From Reuters • Jul. 6, 2021

It’s not the greyness, though I have realised that 90% of my wardrobe is grey and unless I dress carefully, I look like a stumpy column of house dust.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2019

“There was a greyness everywhere,” the Merthyr Express reported.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

“There’s only ‘like’ or shame, pleasure or pain, all extremes, no grey… which is funny, because it was our greyness that made us human all along.”

From The Verge • Nov. 7, 2017

A few dim lights shone indistinct through that greyness.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin