Sentence examples for a patch of grey from inspiring English sources

On the South Downs above Brighton, after a long trek through fields of bored sheep, you reach C-Curve, a mirrored panopticon that surveys the view and plays tricks with your body as you attempt to understand how it has suddenly managed to segment the landscape into a triptych or redefine a patch of grey sky as a lake into which you see yourself tumbling headfirst.

Famously, Vermeer created the illusion of the pearl against a patch of dark grey with just two bravura white brushstrokes: a bright highlight on the front, capturing light coming in from the window, and a subtler one lower down, showing the reflection of the girl's collar.

And finally, I saw him as I had the last time we parted, at Boston's Logan Airport, on a patch of dingy grey carpet, as I kissed his whiskered cheek.

I quickly get the job done, pull up my light grey slacks, move over to the mirror and immediately regret both the speed of my urination and my choice of trouser colour, as I look down to see a patch of dark grey spread across my crotch.

At one point, there is a patch of sky visible between slate-grey clouds that is the exact colour of crème de menthe.

The face is not a flat description but a marvellous three-dimensional portrait of a handsome Italian living in real time, muscles beneath the skin, five o'clock shadow, not merely the usual patch of grey paint but something emerging from within.

Unlike the Kenzo collection, which focused on the weird and monochrome, this pattern features a pretty abstract flower print in grey and pastel tones, and – suspend your disbelief – not a patch of velvet in sight.

Mao lies in a dim chamber, garbed in a grey suit, his sallow waxy face framed by thick black hair bathed in a patch of orange light.

I parked in a patch of shade.

"Find a patch of sunlight, my boy.

He landed on a patch of grass.