ashen

Example Sentences

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The sky over British Columbia was ashen and spitting indifferent snow as I navigated the slush to the Vancouver soundstage where much of the show was filmed.

From New York Times

On one side of Syria's civil war, a man in army fatigues carried a lifeless child's ashen body from the rubble of a shattered building in the government-held city of Hama.

From Reuters

The scene for the 2018 disaster was set by the wildfire, which left behind an ashen surface that made the soil in the burn area less able to absorb water.

From New York Times

The book is a despairing account of a boy and his father lurching across the cold, wretched, corpse-strewn, ashen landscape of a post-apocalyptic world.

From New York Times

The older Yale specimen is more deteriorated and painted a uniform shade of ashen gray, whereas the Berlin cast is in better shape and has been painted to resemble the 1819 illustration.

From Science Magazine