ashen
Example Sentences
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So that ashen cross proves an appropriate start to Lent’s season of repentance: a time to get things right in your life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Legislators looked ashen and somber, and one of their number, Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., declared it “one of the most troubling things” he’d ever witnessed.
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2025
From the flats of Pasadena, I drove uphill, into Altadena, with my heart going steadily downhill at each ashen block.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025
When Eric Trump walked out during the morning break—before most of these fireworks had even happened—he looked absolutely ashen.
From Slate • May 7, 2024
Her skin, usually the smooth brown of groundnut paste, looked like the liquid had been sucked out of it, ashen, like the color of cracked harmattan soil.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing ashen
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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The Things They Carried
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