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  • adjective of grey tinged with blue

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Examples

  • Mrs. Elliot, a woman of about sixty with bluish-gray hair and gray eyes, rose from her wooden desk chair.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • The television was on and set to full-blazes, the walls a luminescent, cavernous bluish-gray.

    Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011

  • Mrs. Elliot, a woman of about sixty with bluish-gray hair and gray eyes, rose from her wooden desk chair.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • At the top of the light bluish-gray paper was a silver-colored emblem that resembled the Great Seal of the United States.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • The television was on and set to full-blazes, the walls a luminescent, cavernous bluish-gray.

    Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011

  • Mrs. Elliot, a woman of about sixty with bluish-gray hair and gray eyes, rose from her wooden desk chair.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • Mrs. Elliot, a woman of about sixty with bluish-gray hair and gray eyes, rose from her wooden desk chair.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • Hatchlings are covered in a layer of gray fluffy down, which molts to a bluish-gray second down.

    Black-footed penguin 2010

  • A color photo of a banded, bluish-gray serpent basking on a rock confirmed that it had indeed been an unmistakable specimen of Lampropeltis alterna.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010

  • A color photo of a banded, bluish-gray serpent basking on a rock confirmed that it had indeed been an unmistakable specimen of Lampropeltis alterna.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010

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