Sentence examples for slate-grey sky from inspiring English sources

Outside a slate-grey sky is pondering whether to dispense driving sleet or merely torrential rain.

The chimneys of paper mills spew white smoke into the slate-grey sky; the air smells as acrid as ever.

He got out of the club car, looked up at a slate-grey sky and a crumbling stadium and gazed at his young wife incredulously.

Then, for a moment, the slate-grey sky lightens and two jagged peaks become visible – and for an anointed few seconds you experience something of the "magic that takes you out, far out, of this time and this world".

Between the soot-black pavements and the slate-grey sky, there were splashes of bright colour as thousands brought bunches of flowers to lay at makeshift memorials to the dead.

That much was evident early into his round on Sunday after he teed off with Jim Furyk, with the wind whipping across the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Arran all but invisible under a slate-grey sky.

Now they're back for round two, this time exchanging slate-grey skies for shimmering Italian coastline.

Under slate-grey skies and after continual rain had kept the players off the field until 3.20pm, the ball darted left and right, north and south.

Today, the previously changeable weather has settled into slate-grey skies and constant drizzle: it looks like an overcast afternoon in October.

The slate-grey skies of east London have turned blue; lambs gambol in the fields; the river Dyfi winds its way gently towards Aberdovey; the inviting beach at Borth hints at the possibilities of summer.

A team cannot defend this obligingly and expect to get away with it and, unfortunately for Hodgson, England were even more vulnerable under the slate-grey skies of Sáo Paulo than they had been in the searing heat of Manaus.