Sentence examples for word gray from inspiring English sources
The use of the word gray (German grau, French gris, Romansh grisch) in this context derived from the homespun gray cloth worn by the men and gave rise to the name of the Grisons, or Graubünden ("Gray Leagues"), for the whole canton.
Because it was picked up as drift along the shores of the North Sea, ambergris was likened to the amber of the same region, and its name is derived from the French words for "gray amber".
Behind those words are gray images of blueprints and lasers and factories with big bolts like in Charlie Chaplin's spoof Modern Times.
WINSTON'S CHAMPAGNE BAR Luxe is the word for this gray velvet and mirrored retreat.
That's makes the fact that they're paid marketing much more clear than the tiny gray word "Sponsored" at the bottom of the ads that appeared previously.
It has some biblically virtuous associations (be good to Ma and Pa) but it is more often the cry of honor that justifies the stoning of unfortunate women in the primitive reaches of the Middle East, it is honor that drove some defeated Southerners into creating the KKK; honor is often a sad gray word, dust in the mouths of demagogues, used to justify cruelty, bigotry and hatred.
Nintendo, which makes the Wii or Wii U. Wii games have slightly larger boxes than the other two and will have a milky white bar at the top with the word Wii in gray letters.
The message "ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE" was lit in yellow LED lights on a sign mounted on a building, the words stark against gray slabs.
"I Was Gasping for Contact" rushes toward us from an orb of pink on gray; the word "contact" where we expect "air" adds a surprising force: someone is suffocating from lack of love, not oxygen.
She has written the word "poverty" in faint gray pencil, but the word looms large in her life: In a world where secondary education is not free, families often choose to send only their sons to school.
The word hypnotherapy is a gray area for practitioners; generally, the National Guild of Hypnotists recommends avoiding the term unless you're a licensed healthcare professional, since the word therapy indicates the client will undergo a psychotherapeutic treatment.
