In other words, Williamsburg may still be a place of backyard clotheslines and old-timers greeting passers-by on the street, but with swaths of gray-brick-and-chrome apartment buildings snaking through the area's low-rise buildings, perhaps not for much longer.
He stood up and watched Valentine strut down the length of the room, a swath of gray-and-white striped silk floating behind her.
Night finally closes in as the horizon all but disappears in rectangular swaths of slate gray, midnight blue and moonlight-streaked black.
Who would have guessed that a swath of industrial gray on the New Jersey waterfront could become an international flashpoint?
In her trailer on the first Sunday of the festival she hung out with Azealia Banks, the rising young rapper; they swapped hair styling tips; Ms. Banks's hair was long and purple, and Santigold has a swath of silvery gray in hers.
MY childhood memories of Mexico during the 1950's are wrapped in rebozos: young women on their way to parties, resplendent in shawls woven from fine cotton dipped in natural dyes; a mother and infant blanketed and tethered by a swath of plain gray or brown.
As the president's remarks passed the one-hour mark, some of the seats in the stands began to empty, revealing large swaths of blue and gray where people once were.
Nearly a quarter of the trees have died in some areas, leaving vast swaths of orange and gray hillsides; the accumulation of dead fuel can cause fires to burn hotter and spread more easily.
There is no upper limit on the size of a sidewalk, and in most parts of the city they are much wider than five feet, as in the ample gray swaths of the Avenue of the Americas in Midtown.
The fire had burned unevenly, leaving some swaths of land barren and gray.
The fire had burned unevenly, leaving some swaths of land barren and gray while in other areas, unscathed trees and vineyards swam into view in vivid color.
