Example Sentences

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The film's star Taron Egerton said Scotland having "greyness in abundance" was the ideal substitute for Moscow.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2023

"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

“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

To his disappointment he could not see them at all: only a vague greyness, rolling down towards them.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis