Sentence examples for grew white from inspiring English sources

The daytime sky grew white with becalmed air trapped over the city.

As rock 'n' roll's popularity grew, white preachers tried to distance their flock from this "blasphemous jungle music," with little success.

"I don't think there's a villain in this story if we're trying to find one," said Bradway, who stood at the lectern for 46 minutes, his fingernails gripping the sides so tightly at times that his knuckles grew white.

A Dartmouth graduate who forever dressed the part in tweed jacket, oxford shirt with button-down collar, gray or khaki trousers and striped tie, Mr. Canby retained his lean build and boyish gait long after his reddish-blond hair grew white.

Disdain of Washington and Wall Street grew white hot.

Crusted patches on the horse's skin grew white hairs, and he became a piebald.

Without water, the rods grew white-hot and possibly melted through the steel-and-concrete tube.

As cool grew "whiter" in the hands of West Coast musicians like Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond and Chet Baker, the dense percussive style known as hard bop became the "black" alternative.

After Simon's second season of "The Wire," which shifted the show's focus from the drug trade to the Baltimore docks, the cast grew whiter because there are more white dockworkers in Baltimore than white drug dealers.

His face grows white, his eyes dark.

"The picture grows white, grey, the face is wiped out.