steel grey

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noun

a dark grey colour, usually slightly purple
(as adjective)a steel-grey suit

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Words nearby steel grey

steel drum, Steele, steel engraving, steel-faced, steel gray, steel grey, steel guitar, steelhead, steelie, steel lumber, steelmaker

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How to use steel grey in a sentence

Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.
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As a major source for steel during World War II, Sheffield was a frequent target of bombing raids.
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We made big things like steel for ships and tractors and turbines for hydroelectric plants.
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Artists Under Hitler successfully manages to add some grey to the generally black-and-white conversation about Nazis and art.
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The acts Grey performs on Steele are all popular among BDSM enthusiasts.
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A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
His nose was hooked and rather large, his eyes were blue, bright as steel, and set a trifle wide.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
A colossal steam "traveller" had ceaselessly carried great blocks of stone and long steel girders from point to point.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
He saw a large building, in front of which were long, slender strips of shining steel.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum