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Example sentences for "grey hair"

  • He was fifty and gaunt, with a wide flat forehead and thinning, grey hair, and wore steel spectacles.

  • The Honourable Dave whispered to the judge, a tall, lank, cadaverous gentleman with iron-grey hair, who nodded.

  • I had, indeed, remarked Letchworth's face, which seemed to me peculiarly evil, its lividity enhanced by a shock of grey hair.

  • Grey hair is a normal sign of the decadence of an organism which has entered upon its involution.

  • No form of grey hair, however, should be confused with albinism.

  • Their faces were sun-tanned and mahogany-coloured; some wore earrings in their ears, and strange curls of grey hair at the side of their heads.

  • A pallid complexion and black-grey hair, brushed straightly down where he was not bald, produced an impression of sanctimoniousness which was increased by a fawning manner of speech.

  • A slow flush mounted to his iron-grey hair.

  • She cast a frightened look at Stainton, who was lying beside her, his iron-grey hair disordered, his mouth slightly open, snoring gently.

  • Newberry appeared shorter and thinner than ever as he sat crumpled over the newspaper, his grey moustache short and thin and his head covered by grey hair, short and thin and worn in a bang.

  • Mr Rawlinson passed his hands through his iron-grey hair, and smiled as he watched the ladle go down into the steaming fluid and come up again to be emptied into the plate held by Daniel.

  • A few yards from the door of the low whitewashed house Torcall Cameron stood, his gaunt figure, with its mass of tangled iron-grey hair, thrown into strong relief.

  • Yellow was the light that fell upon the tangled iron-grey hair of the weary sleeper at her feet; yellow as yellow flowers was the gleam upon the brown-grey tresses of the weary sleeper by his side.

  • What he pointed to was a long tress of grey hair, grey-streaked brown hair, firmly clutched in the right hand of the dead man.

  • It was this time that he had his staff in his hand, though no cap covered his tangled iron-grey hair.

  • He was broad-shouldered and erect, and I was piqued to find him, for all his iron-grey hair, five years younger than myself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    becomes king; considerable measure; dead shot; degrees south; devouring fire; each extremity; grey colour; grey eyes; grey granite; grey hairs; grey stone; grey wolf; greyish brown; greyish white; higher criticism; more cheerful; national drama; native woman; none whatever; outer margin; said hurriedly; situated close; thirds rule; various species; what did; would consider