ash-colored
Example Sentences
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Many of these evolutionary oddballs were delicately etched into the ash-colored stone, where soft-body features such as gills, digestive tracts, optic nerves and neural tissue—which rarely fossilize—were easily visible.
From Scientific American • May 10, 2023
She echoed many New Yorkers who had said that despite the small joys of not having to shovel snow or hike through streets covered in ash-colored slush, the mild weather felt eerie.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2023
In 2010, Bjørn Åvik was driving from Sweden into Norway, carrying alcohol, tobacco, and four African gray parrots — intelligent, ash-colored birds he intended to breed and sell in Norway.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2022
The ash-colored sky to the east gave off just enough light to disclose the grid of bowed and huddled bodies.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
Then they flapped up, one by one, in their ash-colored jackets, circling my head and crying.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
