"gray" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They can be stained or painted, although left alone they weather to a lovely gray patina.
- The bronze was given a dark grey velvety patina so that it looks almost black when the sun hits it.
- A whitish gray patina covered every surface, including broom tracks where the floor had last been swept.
- But the face above the scattergun was at least sixty years old, lined and furrowed, with a pale, unhealthy sheen to it, overlaid with a gray patina of dust and grease.
- Hands have already worn the gray patina off the cigarette of the "Reclining Woman Smoking."
- The city seemed overlaid with a dull, gray patina.
- Even the horse had a fine gray patina that reflected off the walls of the gully.
- But his magnum opus, cast in bronze with a gray patina, is of his flayed skin and scalp hung out to dry.
- A serpent-shaped vessel from a century-old Japanese design seems seductive washed in a gray patina.
- SOME of the freshest-looking furniture today is actually old: early 20th-century steel pieces that have been stripped of their paint to show a sculptural simplicity and warm, gray patina.
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