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Example sentences for "light grey"

  • It lays five eggs, which are of a light grey colour, almost white, variously speckled with purple, and of a long shape.

  • In the female the black is replaced by dark ash-brown, and the white by light grey; bill dark olive; feet brown, with black membranes.

  • The plumage of the birds before moulting is a light grey, streaked with a darker shade; the wings and tail-feathers are of a greyish black.

  • The lower part of the body is light grey, the beak black, the feet a reddish horn colour.

  • The eye is light grey, the foot light red.

  • The under part of the body is light grey, the feathers being edged with greenish yellow; the wing and tail feathers are greyish black, dotted with greenish grey.

  • I observed on them a few small trees, belonging to the Sapindaceae, with pinnate and rather drooping leaves, with a light grey bark, exuding a good eatable gum.

  • One of them, which we saw in the creek, was of a light grey colour, with rich fur and a white tail.

  • In autumn and winter the red edgings of the upper parts are substituted by light grey.

  • The sound of the word Tuesday, for instance, may be seen as a light grey-green followed by a yellow!

  • Paint or paste a small disc of light grey on a white cardboard ground.

  • Somewhere or other you see a patch of light grey.

  • This is likewise the case in the flame of reduction, but when overcharged the color is light grey, when the bead is cooled.

  • In the reduction flame it is reduced to the protoxide, which remains of a light grey color, while the soda is absorbed by the charcoal.

  • By fusing it with carbonate of soda upon charcoal in the reduction flame, the soda is absorbed by the charcoal, while the protoxide of the metal remains as a light grey powder.

  • The beak is light grey, the eyes surrounded with a naked greyish skin, the iris is deep orange.

  • The back of the head is light grey, the rest of the body black.

  • The young ones which are taken in winter are known by their dark brown beak; the lower part of the back is of the same colour, but their feathers are edged with a light grey.

  • The under parts are a light grey, sometimes almost pure white, barred with streaks of brown, or pied with black patches.

  • It is covered with a light grey hair of wool-like softness, short on the face and body, but long on the legs.

  • The external parts of some are formed of light grey lichen, and so perfectly arranged round it as to appear at a little distance as if only forming part of the branch to which it is attached.

  • If, while the image of the window-bars before mentioned lasts, we look upon a light grey surface, the cross will then appear light and the panes dark.

  • If we look at a black disk on a light grey surface, we shall presently, by changing the direction of the eyes in the slightest degree, see a bright halo floating round the dark circle.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "light grey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    born near; elastic fluids; light battery; light blue; light color; light cruisers; light divine; light down; light draft; light from; light hair; light laugh; light reddish; light sandy; light step; light troops; light will; light winds; lighted candle; lighter shade; lightning discharge; lightning flash; must expect; servants shall; valuable remedy; wrote back