Some of the specimens taken between Summit Pass and Toad River show evidence of intergradation between the paler and grayer E.
The village looked grayer than usual; the boats were nearly all away; the gulls fluttered in the harbor making their eternal music.
Grayer and grayer and more distorted grew the boxer's face, redder and redder and more swollen Old Mole's, until at last the strain relaxed and Matilda's tormentor was drawn into shallow water and out on to the bank.
The richer brown plumage of the back and the darker streakings and wash of the breast help to distinguish the least from the lighter and grayer semipalmated bird, but in the fall these distinctions are less marked in the adult.
This produces a first winter plumage which is similar to that of the adult, but the general tone of the upper parts is grayer and the feathers of the mantle are edged with dull white.
The Pribilof sandpiper is much paler in the juvenal plumage andgrayer in the winter plumage than the Aleutian.
The chin is buffy white, and the throat and breast are "ochraceous tawny," becoming lighter and grayer on the belly.
The grayer the color, the more the "dead" or "flat" drying will make it look colorless.
Others go to the other extreme, and paint grayer and lighter, depending on glazings and full touches of color later on to richen and deepen the color.
By using a reddish yellow and a bluish or purplish red, you practically bring in the red note, and make a grayer green while still using only two pigments.
All ready," assured Diana, as Marilla appeared in the doorway, a gaunt figure with grayer hair than of yore and no fewer angles, but with a much softer face.
Surely he was much grayer than he had been a year before.
Color reddish in summer, browner or grayer in winter.
Along the Wasatch front in Utah, this Great Basin shrew intergrades with the larger, grayer shrew of the Rockies.
It intergrades with a somewhat larger, grayer shrew in the Sierra Nevada of California.
But he soon sees that some are light, while others are dark, and later comes to perceive that each hue has many grayer degrees.
Thus a child’s hand may be his substitute for the color sphere, and also make him realize that it is filled with grayer degrees of the outside colors, all of which melt into gray in the centre.
Resembles the adult nuptial, but rather grayer on the back and the throat band incomplete.
Spring birds are slightly paler, grayer and less buffy than in the fall.
The first nuptial plumage is acquired by wear, the brownish wash wearing away and the back becoming grayer and the black markings clearer.
The first nuptial plumage, assumed by a more or less limited prenuptial moult, is grayer above and paler below, except on the chin and throat where new pale orange feathers contrast with the worn and faded ones of the breast.
The back is usually grayer and the lower parts whiter, with broader streakings above and below.
They strolled along the lonesome road, with the primrose light growing grayer and grayer through the velvety meadows, where the quiet cows grazed.
Uncle Ezra came back into the room, his face a trifle grayer and more worn.
Think of red of the most vivid brilliant kind; gradually think of it growing grayer and grayer until it is pure gray.
All the same, Clairvaux looked grayer than a month ago.
It grew grayer and darker, and we went back for Captain Walker, who, with the absorption of a true sportsman, had hardly noticed the falling shadows.
Cape Region of Lower California with a grayer back.
These latter were all distinctly grayer than any of the individuals of the first flock, whose plumage was washed strongly with yellow.
The heavens were growing grayer and grayer and the sun hid itself so well that one couldn't imagine where it was.
The old castle grew grayer and grayer outside, but ruddier and merrier within.
This order may be reversed, as in the case of a building with dark roof and light walls, in which case the shadow may be grayer than the lower portion of the roof, as in "B" in Fig.
He drank a little, yet his face became grayer and grayer; a bluish tinge spread about his mouth.
Jim's head fell back, the fierce light went out of his eyes, the face became grayer and sharper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grayer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
