Sentence examples for gray ground from inspiring English sources
People weep and wander aimlessly over gray ground strewn with ripped pages and dislodged letters.
James Long's shorts and boxy shirts, with wide stripes on a translucent gray ground, are almost cheerless uniforms.
It began with the first lot, Cy Twombly's rhythmical blue-green scribble on gray ground done in May 1971 in house paint and wax crayon.
The figures in "The Lovers" (1923), for instance, are thickly outlined on a brushy gray ground that could pass for limestone.
In one case, a regular trapezoid, black in a brushy gray ground, can be read as a receding ramp, or a pit.
In "Find" rows of yellow squares holding concentric smaller squares make the gray ground appear bright blue — a remarkable optical effect.
An unruly brown beard, touched with gray, grounded him in manhood.
Some, with flares of color and receding grids adrift on airy gray grounds, are infectiously free-spirited and fanciful.
Visual pleasures are restricted to brushy all-caps inscriptions of the words, which fill the big panels edge to edge in chalky gray against darker gray grounds, touched with copper-patina green, gunmetal blue, and ochre.
The degree of opacification varies from mild to severe with a bluish-gray ground glass appearance.
The completed building, designed by an executive with the Frouges' firm, the architect Anthony M. Pavia, was blue, from the top down to its charcoal gray marble ground floor.
