Definition: 1. A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black. 2. Gray clothing. 3. Make gray. 4. Turn gray. 5. An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white. 6. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
Use 'grey' in a sentence:
1. Grey sheets flapped on the clothes line.
2. The ceiling was grey and cracked.
3. The walls were a uniform grey.
4. He had black hair, greying at the temples.
5. Her grey hair straggled in wisps about her face.
6. Her face was grey with exhaustion.
7. He's gone very grey.
8. Her face was grey and bloodless.
9. He dresses in sober grey suits.
10. The company was full of faceless grey men who all looked the same.
11. At the moment, the law on compensation is very much a grey area.
12. A small man on a grey horse had appeared.
13. It was a dull, grey day.
14. The designs are available in two colourways: red/ grey or blue/ grey.
15. His hair was dark, with flecks of grey.
16. She plucked out a grey hair.
17. I hate these grey days.
18. I saw this nice-looking man in a grey suit.
19. We have papered this bedroom in softest grey.
20. His hair was touched with grey.
21. The seat of his grey trousers split.
22. His dark hair was just tinged with grey.
23. The grey ocean seethed beneath them.
24. You're wearing well—only a few grey hairs!
25. Two thousand grey seal pups are born there every autumn.
26. Her hair is going grey.
27. His hair was greying at the sides.
28. A grey raincoat was folded over her arm.
29. She had streaks of grey in her hair.
30. She's riding the grey.
31. He is light haired with grey eyes.
32. He had a wide mouth and humorous grey eyes.
33. I think grey hair makes you look very distinguished.
34. The floor was tiled in squares of grey and white marble.
35. We arrived at a multistoreyed grey building.
36. The blue of the sky paled to a light grey.
37. In the city the clean white snow had turned to grey slush.
38. The leaves are grey and silky smooth.
39. It was a plain, grey stone house.
40. You're wearing well ─ only a few grey hairs!
41. He wore a dove-grey suit.
42. It was a grey, wet, April Sunday.
43. It can be black, white or grey.
44. I'll take the grey jacket.
45. His usually dead grey eyes were sparkling.
46. Exactly what can be called an offensive weapon is still a grey area.
47. A cold grey light crept under the curtains.
48. The walls were not white, but rather a sort of dirty grey.
