Sentence examples for grey place from inspiring English sources

It was a grey place: the river was polluted and the streets black.

You and I both know that the capital is a dreary, grey place with zero charm.

"When I moved here in the 1970s, it is true, that the city was rather a grey place that closed at 10pm," Mr Lahodynski said.

Goma itself was a black and grey place, a town built on volcanic basalt tough as broken glass through which green shoots struggled to grow.

And I wasn't sorry to leave Britain behind: the country was a sour, grey place at the time, in the midst of industrial dispute and political unrest.

Yeats recalls a man who went "To a grey place on a hill / In grey Connemara clothes / At dawn to cast his flies".

The convent, in Hannah Clark's design, is an iron-grey place full of the sound of suppressed desire and unanswered prayer.

To the ordinary British citizen, reading the daily paper over his breakfast cornflakes, Hungary seemed an unfathomably grey, mysterious place.

But there was more to see, at the top of Vesuvius, a grey misty place that smells of sulphur.

"This is Tilbury," it began, "a grey, desolate place with an evil stench of violence, where local skinheads roam the docklands like cropped rats".

However, when eukaryotic phosphorylation sites are aligned with the putative L. infantum phosphorylation site, there is a threonine (highlighted in grey) in place of the serine (Figure 4C) suggesting that Thr166 is phosphorylated in this species.