Example Sentences

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Grayish green salt bushes had taken over the areas between the crisscross of big arroyos.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Grayish blue with a red hue at its center.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Grayish brown mixed with white; wings and tail fuscous.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

Grayish stone, body and head of a frog with open mouth to receive pipe-stem.

From American Antiquities Auction Catalogue, January 8, 1898 by Norman, Wm. B.

Female — Grayish olive brown above; whitish below; finely   Streaked everywhere with very dark brown, like a sparrow.

From Bird Neighbors by Blanchan, Neltje