How to Use ashen in a Sentence

ashen

adjective

• Its skin looked yellow, and sometimes ashen.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
• This hadn’t mattered for some time, because the creek was dry, the creek was ashen.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
• Put it in the same cosmic drawer as the ashen light of Venus.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• Though ashen, the convex steel form still resonates to the rhythmic thump of her hands.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
• But on one of our last days, the ashen sky cracked open to reveal fragments of a cerulean canvas.
  — Celeste Moure, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2024
• Their chicks, born a few months ago, are getting tall yet remain in their nascent plumage of ashen gray feathers.
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
• Lead—dense but yielding, silvery but ashen, handy but deadly—was long used for this purpose.
  — Kyle Devine, Longreads, 14 July 2026
• Always, always those little ashen faces.
  — Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
• As the trial got underway, her clients sat ashen at the defense table.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2025
• An ashen corpse drops to the ground, and the dictator moves on with ease, ready to discuss war tactics with his men.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• Hitchcock didn’t respond, his face slowly turning ashen.
  — Jeffrey Collins, Sun Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
• Metal railings or a charred brick chimney were all that remained to distinguish the ashen piles.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
• When the world is an ashen wasteland, there’s a good chance naked mole rats will still be around to keep the cockroaches company.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2018
• Perhaps the warmest shade of ash brown in the bunch, this ashen chestnut looks insanely flattering on warm-toned skin types.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2024
• The cruelest consolation for an innocent life made ashen before her time.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
• Patches of skin that appear red, white, blue, gray, yellow, purple, brown or ashen as opposed to their normal color.
  — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Jan. 2026
• Then Keegan asked Shankly for £50 a week and caught a glimpse of Ashman looking, well, ashen.
  — Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
• The darkened mood of the book never lifts as a father and son shuffle across the ashen landscape, with little hope of finding a place left untouched.
  — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• People with darker complexions may take on an ashen or blue color, while people with lighter skin often turn red, Smith said.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• In addition, the extra light can overwhelm the natural warmth of the Black skin and produce an ashen effect.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2021
• If untreated, the condition causes severe symptoms such as breathing problems, weak pulse and ashen or bluish skin.
  — ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
• The venerable monk was draped in his maroon and saffron robe, his bare feet looking ashen with dust, a few of his toes still blackened from his arduous walk.
  — Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
• If untreated, the condition causes severe symptoms such as trouble breathing, skin rashes, weak pulse and ashen or bluish skin.
  — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
• Now, however, visiting is discouraged as ashen rubble remains, and residents are wary of land grabs by outsiders.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
• Much of the centuries-old town of Lahaina looked like an ashen wasteland in the wake of the wildfire that has destroyed thousands of buildings and sent thousands of residents fleeing for their lives.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2023
• But the fire this time was started by a son, which led to raging misfortunes that consumed his three brothers one by one, leaving only ashen memories for his surviving sister and aged parents to sift through.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
• The economic and cultural heart of the island was reduced to an ashen landscape in the deadliest US wildfire in more than 100 years.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
• But before rebuilding can begin and before that fuller history can be fashioned, priceless pieces of Lahaina’s history that survived the fire must be saved from the ashen landscape.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Natalia Rudenko arrives at the office on an ashen February morning with her young son, Egor, to share an account of wartime terror spanning three generations.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
• Warm, ashen, and almost preternaturally glossy, consider the pop star's interpretation a blueprint for the mutable color trend.
  — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 3 Mar. 2026