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How to use ashy in a sentence

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His dark, ashy hair and unfriendly appearance didn't help the sessions at all.
Though the younger girl's hair was a bright gold, Clara knew that in time the hue would turn ashy, as hers had done.
He was tan, toned, and had ashy blonde hair that reminded one of a falling leaf.
I drank my wine and then sat with the empty glass between my hands, staring into the fire until it died down into a heap of ashy pink coals.
Great is its seething, like a burning cinder, a grievous thing of an ashy colour.
I picked up a chocolate from a candy dish in the living room, removed the foil, and it crumbled into a white, ashy heap in the palm of my hand.
He discovered that the mishandling of fruit, both in groves and in packing plants, had turned the gold of oranges into a mold of ashy blue.
Smudging an ashy thumbprint on our foreheads he motioned us to sit down and told his disciple to pass us the chilam.
This time, though, old and new mesh perfectly, all hard greys and ashy blacks, and we believe.
Tim is humming the melody of some ambiguous rock song and staring at the crumbling, ashy end of the cigarette.
He had short dark brown hair with bangs that slightly fell over his ashy blue eyes.
She had pale, ashy blonde hair, of frail build with fair skin and sky blue eyes.
There was relatively clear air here, with a low ceiling of roiling, ashy smoke through which flaming missiles broke.
Since he had been right in the thick of it, his face and bald dome were nearly completely ashy, and his clothes had bits of white foam on them.
Ships in its path were instantly incinerated and reduced to nothing more than superheated gases and ashy cinder.
Daniel ran his finger along the tablecloth, leaving a trail of ashy fingerprints.
He turned to Karl, his face ashy and covered in sweat, but he was grinning widely.
A concentration of burned clay and ashy soil was found against the west wall of the room, between a projection of the bedrock and a single stone.
The elevator itself was nondescript chrome with hard, ashy brown carpeting.
I lay alone in the darkened bedroom, staring into ashy, cool murkiness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The habitation deposit consists of loose, ashy dark soil charged with clam and abalone shells, and mammal and bird bones.
Her face, which had been flushed, was now ashy pale, and her lips were compressed.
Paul strode about the room in silence, ashy pale, his face convulsed and ugly.
His eyes were closed, his lips were blue and ashy, and his frame was motionless.
She lay white, and as if suspended, in the crepuscular atmosphere of sunset mingling with the ashy gleam of the vast anchorage.
Examination shows the moribund parts to be covered with myriads of minute scales which give the infected bark a scurfy, ashy look.
Again some return of color to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.
A finger poked through it, and it broke away in rustling flakes of ashy rottenness.
Jack's face was ashy pale, but his eyes burnt as if with some hidden fire.
Her cheeks were blanched, her lips ashy, her immobility amazing.
The men began to show uneasiness, too, and presently they came flying to me with ashy faces, saying she had sprung a leak.
They drew back from the window, and the Doctor looked for explanation in his friend's ashy face.
That face, now ashy white, was distorted into a diabolical grin.
His face was worn and ashy, but his eyes burned with a piteous fire.
After which his eyes darkened and closed, his face grew ashy pale, the hands whitened, and the colossus sank quite down, breathing his last sigh.
Only her face was ashy pale, and her whitening lips quivered.
She was leaning her head on her hand, and her face was ashy pale.
Natalie's ashy face and the word croup, acted like a talisman.
Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy incrustation that covered the meteorite, was falling off the circular edge of the end.
It was so beautiful in its form, it was so ashy pale, it was so fixed in its abstraction, it was so full of a wild, sleep-walking, dreamy horror of I don't know what.
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