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Before the jury was brought in, Banks, dressed in a gray suit, blew a kiss to his wife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

The pot was compact enough to fit in a palm, with a simple rim, a smooth dull gray surface, and no decoration.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

These kids had fancy snacks, posters and portable speakers, while my kid was in a gray cell block staring at four concrete walls like she was about to do hard time for grand larceny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

These letters haven’t been issued since the Civil War, but the parallel is obvious and creates shades of gray that could present major problems.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Betsie’s face was gray with weariness, and she stumbled as we marched.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Just tell Claude: Make the gray background a little grayer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Dr. Dre announces that a time portal has opened to 2002 and a digitally de-aged old Eminem is on the loose, with today’s grayer 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg playing along with the bit.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

Ms. Ortiz watched Mrs. Ángela, whose hair appeared grayer than in her debut video, her voice slightly raspier.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Parking isn’t one of them, and anyone who really wants to have an easy time parking a car will soon head for grayer pastures.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2023

Everything faded from gray to grayer to grayer still, so that soon there was hardly any color, and then the gray was so dark that Turner couldn’t see through it.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Presumably the same is true of the grayest day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

More than 1 in 5 people are over 65, a rate on par with some of the world’s grayest nations.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

It makes a great coffee table book, one that can help inspire on even the grayest of days.

From The Verge ● Apr. 28, 2022

Even during the grayest of winter months, there is plenty of green, and pops of color and beauty around the region in arboretums and botanical gardens.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022

But when old Rotan, oldest and grayest of the mountain's servants, went into a trance, then Rawson could no longer escape the honors being thrust upon him.

From Two Thousand Miles Below by Charles Willard Diffin

The biggest problem involved the neutral axis, the line of grays that runs from black to white.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026

As we follow the cat on her solitary journey through a wind-tossed landscape of muted grays and blues, the question of what a small cat needs takes on a more philosophical bent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

The broker had staged the house with attractive furniture in taupes and grays.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

Bulbs are defiant harbingers of spring in colder climes, sometimes pushing up through the snow in their zeal to greet the sun and spread a little color on a bleak landscape of slushy grays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

White was fading away to expose the grays and browns that had been hidden beneath.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

In the distance, somewhat grayed by atmospheric haze, are the smokestacks and cooling tower of the power plant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

By 2003, on Mars, his hair has grayed and receded, and the wrinkles have multiplied and deepened.

From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2023

The fire department noted that the large amounts of logs and brush inside the landfill helped produce the prodigious plumes of smoke that further grayed out the sky well into Tuesday.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

It’s shot in faded, slightly grayed colors, as if it was left out in the rain, with cinematographer Luc Montpellier finding beautiful afternoon light in the barn and surrounding fields.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023

His name, Jamison, was still three syllables, and his hair had not grayed.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

It was hard to tell who was happier: the current team or those graying alums, proud to at last have company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

More recent new construction hasn’t replaced America’s graying housing stock, meaning the age of the median home is a record 44 years, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeff Schmid has found a silver lining in America’s graying demographics: All of those extra visits to the doctor are good for the economy.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

The fine arts have long struggled with a so-called graying audience, and have moved mountains to innovate in ways that keep the genres fresh in order to attract younger, excitable crowds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026

Samuel’s beard glinted white, and his graying hair stood up high on his head.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck