Sentence examples for gray horizon from inspiring English sources

In the gray horizon she points out the No. 7 blast furnace — "the one the West Germans come to fix".

So when each walked by, she was the only spot of color on the gray horizon, a theatrical trick if there ever was one.

There she sits, an artful stack of driftwood to one side of her bench, a neat row of plants behind her on a low wall and a gray horizon beyond.

"As soon as we close one of these unlicensed scrap dealers, another one opens up," said Aleksandr M. Naumov, the mayor of Kiselevsk, one of several coal mining cities clustered here at the southern end of the Kuznetsk Basin, where clapboard housing settlements teeter on the edge of open-pit excavations under a gray horizon of slag mountains and exhaling smokestacks.

The giant airborne billboard, the nation's largest and one of only 18 blimps in the country, was making its annual swing across New York Harbor, but with the nonstop rain it was idling like a white elephant slouching against a gray horizon.

In the column, yellow layers indicate coarse layers (> course silt); blue layers are hemipelagite (silt ~ clay); gray horizons are turbidite-mud; red layers and patch are tephra layers or patches.

Pile up the adjectives, and it gets even worse: "The thin, mauve fingers of dawn reached up over the flat, charcoal-gray horizon …" The best writers combine killer nouns and adjectives, and they can make dawn — or any other sky — surprising.

High in the saddle of his big bay mare Susannah, Jerry Martinez paused in the midst of his 150-mile horseback ride from Eagle Pass to San Antonio to contemplate the scene around him: Sixty other riders were strung out along U.S. 57, a slim ribbon of pavement that stretched endlessly ahead, undulating across low hills of South Texas brush country before disappearing into a slate-gray horizon.

The sea turned blue and gray, the horizon curved, the sun shone on the wake.

The brown-gray soils of Central Otago are thin and coarse-textured and have subsoil accumulations of lime, whereas the yellow-gray earths of much of the Canterbury Plains, as well as areas of lower rainfall in the North Island, are partially podzolized (layered), with a gray upper horizon.

You may find yourself in an alien city, the light rising at the gray distant horizon, with a feeling that whatever happens to you, you will be OK, and that life, however hard it becomes, will always have something in it to hold your interest.