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  • adverb In a grey way.

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  • adverb having a grey appearance

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Examples

  • Steve sat facing the future and three walls that rose greyly around him like the cove of a cave.

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  • The night closed around them - small sounds, light sighing wind, stars showing in sparkling bunches between greyly drifting clouds.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • I got a compartment to myself, and sat with folded arms, looking greyly at the sunlit devastation that flowed past the windows.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • The interior of the kitchen we now saw greyly for the first time.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • The steeple – clock, perched up above the houses, emerging from beneath another of the countless ripples in the tide of time that regularly roll and break on the eternal shore, is greyly visible, like a stone beacon, recording how the sea flows on; but within doors, dawn, at first, can only peep at night, and see that it is there.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • The interior of the kitchen we now saw greyly for the first time.

    The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 5 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005

  • The interior of the kitchen we now saw greyly for the first time.

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

  • The mattress was partly transparent, a fact he observed with a strange sense of insecurity, and below it was a mirror reflecting him greyly.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • I got a compartment to myself, and sat with folded arms, looking greyly at the sunlit devastation that flowed past the windows.

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

  • An example: “The grey voice of the grey Seaforth glided greyly on to their ears, like a tide of putrescent grey molasses.”

    More Odd Books : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2005

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