Sentence examples for grayback from inspiring English sources
noun
Alternative spelling of greyback
He had gone down as skipper of Grayback, after a series of outstanding patrols.
The seven firefighters who died were from Grayback Forestry, a private fire company in Oregon.
According to the Naval Historical Center in Washington, two other successful appendectomies were performed by submarine corpsmen in World War II, aboard the Grayback and the Silversides.
Ms. Habetler identified three of the injured as Grayback firefighters from Medford, Ore . Michael Brown, 20; Jonathan Frohreich, 18; and Rick Schroeder, 42.
His first film, "Cane Toads," in 1988, was about cane toads, which sugarcane farmers introduced in Queensland, Australia, in 1935, to combat a grayback-beetle infestation; they wound up with a cane-toad infestation instead.
Humphreys has clearly done her research, digging up the folksy terms for lice ("graybacks") and maggots ("skippers") and providing perhaps more detail than we need on Robeson County's turpentine industry.
By contrast, the Confederacy's wartime graybacks failed, lacking the backing of a strong central government.
Leslie Habetler, an emergency response consultant for Grayback Forestry in Merlin, Ore., said the helicopter was carrying 10 of the company's firefighters.
