blue-gray
Example Sentences
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At least 17 glass-covered light boxes surrounding the structure were busted, with broken shards of blue-gray glass covering the light fixtures.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
Even blue-gray gnatcatchers, which weigh less than 7 grams, managed to pick at bits of a cicada like eating pieces of BBQ chicken.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 19, 2023
Shorebirds twittered and blue-gray waves lapped and whooshed, bringing the sounds of the beach to the Central Valley.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2023
They came as a downy covering on a buttery white top with some feathers jutting out haphazardly, or on thick texture blue-gray flared pants evoking an anthropomorphic bird.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023
In London, night came too soon, it hung in the morning air like a threat, and then in the afternoon a blue-gray dusk descended, and the Victorian buildings all wore a mournful air.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
