Sentence examples for bleak gray from inspiring English sources

The lights are dim, the carpeting a bleak gray.

We pay for the autumn by the bleak gray and mostly holiday-empty February and March, until St . Patricks Day, bleak and boozy but bright, rolls around.

It came in a procession of seven hearses that rolled up under bleak gray skies, announced by the tolling of a church bell.

My thoughts wheeled around and down and then struck bottom: not, to my surprise, on despair but on something else after all — hard, bleak, gray, satisfactory freedom.

True, I feel that way partly because I first heard it performed live on a bleak, gray, slushy evening in Boston, where Colin Davis, a venerated champion of Tippett's music, was conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Milling about the snow-blowing wind machine, ready for a winter battle scene against an enormous canvas in varying shades of bleak gray, were a hundred extras in intricately designed breast plates, quilted trousers and raked leather helmets.

Two of his frescoes — "Man Creator and Rebel" and "The People and Their False Leaders" — adorn the walls and domed ceiling of the museum where she works, telling their grim tales in bleak grays that pop against angry reds.

Now that it's actually arrived, it's a real blow, and the world seems so much bleaker, grayer, more monotonous, and a lot duller than it did just yesterday.

The sky was bleak and gray.

It marked a shift in his visual expression, switching from relatively bleak and gray to colourful, almost flamboyant.

As Jamal and I smoked cigarettes, we looked out at the bleak vista – gray skies, a burned-down house, trailers.