Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Colored like lead.
- noun A color resembling that of lead. Also
leaden-gray .
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Examples
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Wooden carvings shone white in the lead-gray twilight, ramrod-straight window frames spoke of expensive replacements made with the best timber.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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Wooden carvings shone white in the lead-gray twilight, ramrod-straight window frames spoke of expensive replacements made with the best timber.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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But soon the sky darkened with lead-gray clouds and it began to rain, a dull, drumming drizzle that penetrated the heaviest cloak.
Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010
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A jet of foaming lead-gray viscous liquid struck his mouth and nose and both of his eyes.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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It was a sultry, stifling day, and a thick carpet of lead-gray cloud was trapping the heat.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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The old Domino Sugar plant has an icy spot on the Williamsburg waterfront, staring across lead-gray waters to the Manhattan shoreline.
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It was a sultry, stifling day, and a thick carpet of lead-gray cloud was trapping the heat.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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It was a sultry, stifling day, and a thick carpet of lead-gray cloud was trapping the heat.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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A jet of foaming lead-gray viscous liquid struck his mouth and nose and both of his eyes.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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It was a sultry, stifling day, and a thick carpet of lead-gray cloud was trapping the heat.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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