Sentence examples for gloomy grey from inspiring English sources

It was sealed downtown, in the gloomy grey building of the New York Federal Reserve, the Wall Street branch of the US central bank.

Gentry, clergy, artisans, serfs, would soon pitch up on the Baron's turf; but a gloomy grey, smokey, snide, drifted, semi-paralysed.

There will be gloomy grey lemon-flavoured macaroons, clouds of grey meringue and dark grey cupcakes, whose colours will only be revealed on the inside.

But as the last of the gloomy grey light faded over the endless, snow-dusted featureless land north of Sweden's capital city, the true colours of this mobile microcosm started to show.

Their wood had weathered to a gloomy grey; enormous holes gaped in cement-block foundations.

Maybe it was the gloomy grey day, or the slight hangover that hung to me like cat hair, but for whatever reason, this past Mother's Day was particularly hard.

Everything was gloomy and grey.

Rochdale midfielder Bastien Hery has apologised to the club's fans for any confusion after denying he had described the town as "a dump – gloomy and grey" in an interview published by a French magazine.

"It has been claimed that the Frenchman labelled Rochdale as 'a dump - gloomy and grey' but a simple translation has shown that nowhere in the original article does Bastien make such a comment.

We went to an autumnal wedding near Alderley Edge when I was 10, and I remember so clearly the walk we went on the next day: cold and gloomy and grey though it was, I scurried off by myself to lean against a rock and try, desperately to imagine myself into the world of Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

It read: "It has been claimed he labelled Rochdale as 'a dump - gloomy and grey' but a translation has shown that nowhere in the original article does Bastien make such a comment".