gray
adjective
of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
were graying
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past progressiveof gray.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“Anyone who thought environmentalists were graying into irrelevance was wrong,” said climate activist Bill McKibben, who co-founded the group 350.org and had helped lead protests against the pipeline.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2012
The shadows under the roof were graying with the light of dawn.
From Isle of the Undead by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Ashes were graying again over the embers long after he had boiled his pot of coffee and put away his can of warmed-over beans.
From Claim Number One by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
The road was empty now,—lay narrow and bare down the hill; the moon had set, and the snow-clouds were graying heavily the pale light above.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various
