How to Use ashen in a Sentence

ashen

adjective

• Put it in the same cosmic drawer as the ashen light of Venus.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Though ashen, the convex steel form still resonates to the rhythmic thump of her hands.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
• This hadn’t mattered for some time, because the creek was dry, the creek was ashen.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
• 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