Sentence examples for block of grey from inspiring English sources

At stake is the ownership of the Bahia Emerald, a vast uncut gem embedded in a block of grey rock.

Zenica itself is an industrial city sandwiched between two mountains and characterised by a bunch of tall chimneys and sprawling blocks of grey monolithic buildings.

Even at the fringes of central London, it is possible to find eyesores: take BT's Keybridge House in Vauxhall, a 15-storey block of empty grey metal.

The story ends, fittingly, with contented reflection as Polina finds herself on the crest of a dazzling career.Mr Vivès mixes black-and-white illustrations with blocks of ashy grey (a very different look from the dreamy aquamarines that envelop "A Taste of Chlorine", his previous work published in English in 2011).

The entire block is a series of grey labyrinthine buildings, all hunched catastrophically together.

He took me to see them in their apartment in Bacău, a town of grey blocks and collapsing villas.

Aluminium engine blocks require the use of grey iron liners to resist wear from sealings mounted in pistons.

He came to the grey block of sandstone that stood at the border of the path and was called the Goldenstone.

We wouldn't do anything like that," said Isabel Pepperill-Clarke, whose bright red coat stood out against the corporate grey block of the St Margaret's campus building on a side street just off one of Leicester's many multi-lane highways.

It's in a grey block of flats near Alexanderplatz.

I tried to find him among the mass of grey heads blocking the door and jostling bemused dealers back into the street.