How to Use gray in a Sentence

gray

1 of 3 adjective

• What will you do when you are old and gray?
• My friends have all gone gray.
• It was a gray winter day.
• There are those shades of gray.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
• There’s still shades of gray there.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026
• Life is all those shades of gray.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
• The house was as gray as the sky.
  — Joel M. Vance, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2025
• There was gray paint on all the walls.
  — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2026
• Shop it in blue, black, or gray.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
• The light in the room was flat and gray.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• Snag this bag on sale in black and gray.
  — Rachel Trujillo, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
• This sweet gray boy came to us as a stray.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2026
• Think black, navy, camel, gray, or ecru.
  — Antonio Fuentes, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2026
• Dark cats have black or gray pads; lighter ones have pink.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
• Just stay away from any shades that are too cool or gray in tone.
  — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Jan. 2026
• The sky was gray and promising rain.
  — Mehrnoush Soroush, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
• Her skin was gray, the color of ash.
  — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
• Hit the gray car that was waiting over here.
  — Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
• The outfit matched his new gray hair.
  — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
• Meanwhile, my world was stuck in gray.
  — Emma Banks, InStyle, 28 May 2026
• In a slate-gray trench over a turtleneck!
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2026
• That one has gray-green leaves with purple veins.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
• Snag this piece in gray, black, and red while sizes are still in stock.
  — Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
• What colors go with gray and white in a kitchen?
  — Lauren Jones, The Spruce, 6 June 2026
• Ground it with soft neutrals like brown and gray.
  — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 7 May 2026
• The products are sold in green, pink and gray.
  — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
• One who can tip the scales and slide white to gray and gray to felony.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
• Then a man in a gray suit with a shock of white hair reached the dais.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• And then the winters can be very wet and kind of gray.
  — AFAR Media, 15 May 2026
• Union wore a full-length gray coat and a neutral heeled boot.
  — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Feb. 2026

gray

2 of 3 noun

• Gregg agrees that gray has been overused as a whole.
  — Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 11 Jan. 2026
• One big gray ran off a few yards, stopped, and howled.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• Kate, the gray with scars made by wolf fangs, has game eyes.
  — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
• This deep gray brings a hint of blue for a bit of cool drama.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
• The bold gray one jumps in the bin and rolls around at lightning speed.
  — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
• The brown of his eyes was faded, ringed with cloudy gray; my pity flared and died.
  — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Their coats are usually brown and tan mixed with gray and black.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2023
• Choose from neutral, easy-to-style shades like black, navy blue, and dark gray.
  — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
• There’s terror in his eyes, and his skin grays by the second.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• No heroes and villains, no black and white, but shades of gray.
  — Richard Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• Highlights in light ash blonde blend well with grays and silvers.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 July 2026
• The palette ranged from neon greens and subdued grays to somber black tones.
  — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
• The viewers come in neutral shades of gray and sepia, as well as in capri blue.
  — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 20 July 2023
• The pants are available in burgundy, heather gray, navy blue, and pink.
  — Melody Kazel, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
• Cons The shade range doesn’t include as many light shades, grays, or red tones.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• Charcoal gray, or even black, gives a small space a black box look, where there's no end in sight.
  — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
• There are dark bags under his eyes and specks of gray in his long beard and thinning brown hair.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2023
• All around her are enormous boulders in varying shades of gray.
  — Ben Huff, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• This is a great way to keep things youthful while still embracing your grays.
  — Audrey Noble, InStyle, 13 Jan. 2026
• Light pink, yellow, and light gray can fade easily or look dirty.
  — Asia London Palomba, The Spruce, 10 May 2026
• Pink is plenty pleasant when paired with bone, clay, and soft muted grays.
  — Lauren Jones, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
• There’s no black and white solution to this issue, there’s a lot of gray.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
• In the middle photo, her hair is down around her face, and the grays are hidden.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• From olive green to dusty mauve to heather gray, the color options are pretty great.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2023
• Gone were her dark brown eyes and in their place, a super-light frosty blue with a subtle hint of gray.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 16 Mar. 2026
• The iPad and both iPad Pros come in space gray and silver.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
• Rain outside, my sky all whites and grays; this week the leaves have started coming down.
  — Declan Ryan, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
• Save up to 32% on go-to colors like chestnut brown, black, and soft gray.
  — Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Dec. 2025
• If a dark gray isn’t needed for your fall wardrobe, the pants also come in navy, black, brown, and red.
  — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
• Colors were mostly muted browns, grays, black and ivory, along with pops of oxblood and red.
  — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026

gray

3 of 3 verb

• Over the next four hours, those blue bars turned to gray.
  — Brody Miller, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• Some looked peach, others gray and beige.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2025
• One who can tip the scales and slide white to gray and gray to felony.
  — Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
• One who can tip the scales and slide white to gray and gray to felony.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
• Then a man with a bald patch and graying stubble stepped out too.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
• The walls are cracked, and their whitewash has faded to gray.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
• Same long beard with a few graying hairs, same retro clothing.
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Pastors with graying beards held their heads high.
  — Sarah Clifton, USA Today, 16 May 2026
• Their bodies can vary in color from tan and brown to gray and black.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
• Their bodies can vary in color from tan and brown to gray and black.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
• But as the years progress, his joints will stiffen and his muzzle will gray.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Toners can be used on all colors and textures, from black to gray and white hair.
  — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 10 Sep. 2023
• His night terrors contained muddy alleys and dark streets gray with rain.
  — Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2021
• Study links graying hair to stem cells getting stuck, unable to color new hair growth.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
• Storekeepers lost your skivvies or turned them from white to gray by washing them with the colors?
  — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
• The graying couple raised their right hands in the children’s courthouse, as the judge swore them in.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• There are so many people on a daily basis that are not making it to the age where their hair starts to gray.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2022
• His mustache is graying, but his eyes remain mischievous.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• Neil McArthur is tall, with a boyish swoop of graying hair and glasses.
  — Sam Lipsyte, Harper's Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
• At sixty-three, Hand is lean and slight, with graying ginger stubble.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• Stripes, houndstooth, and plaid fabric patterns come in a color range from classic black and navy to gray and wine.
  — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• There were soon-to-be dads, who looked young enough to still live under their own father’s roof and others whose hair had grayed and thinned.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2023
• When the rest of the world is graying, young Africans will form a growing part of the workforce of the future.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• The crowd was rapidly graying or approaching their golden years.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• Said was clean-shaven, with close-cropped, graying hair and thin, rectangular glasses.
  — Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
• Polland, who has a cascade of graying hair, explained why he was chosen for the honor.
  — Ismail Ibrahim, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• The study doesn’t claim that graying hair directly prevents cancer.
  — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
• Finally, for an older deck with graying wood, try a solid color stain.
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 15 June 2023
• The left side of the concrete beads gradient from gray to black and back to gray before the ends of the wire show through the right side of the work.
  — Mario Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
• That helmet could stay in a redesign, and a red facemask, as opposed to gray, would look great with the iconic logo.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2021