lead-colored

• “For the hallway, she floated the idea of a dark, lead-colored gray paint called "Downpipe," describing it as "daring.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Painting Outside the Lines

• “The sea gently knocked at the ramparts of the Portuguese citadel, mustard - and lead-colored after centuries of wear.”

  India’s New Face

• “The sun had disappeared, and a lead-colored twilight settled down.”

  THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI

• “Apart from another distant mutter of thunder, the lead-colored day was very quiet.”

  Simon & Schuster: Thin Air

• “Yesterday, Laila watched her children play in the downpour, hopping from one puddle to another in their backyard beneath a lead-colored sky.”

  A Thousand Splendid Suns

• “A slow, soaking rain fell from a lead-colored sky.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fateful Journeys

• “She ventured to the lead-colored dwelling of Mrs. Dave Dyer.”

  Main Street

• “She and her team unclasped their breakaway harnesses and plummeted, feet-first, into the lead-colored water.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Time to Kill

• “There was a sheer plunge of two hundred feet and then a wasteland of moor and lead-colored pond, undulating northward toward the smoky mists of distant Caledonia.”

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• “Through the swirling snow, the lead-colored sky appeared only as tiny patches of gray, peeking through an unrelenting canopy of frosted green, the arms of countless towering firs stretching forever toward the sky.”

  Simon & Schuster: Scott Free

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