Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A relatively luminous slate color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a dark gray, like slate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the color of slate or granite
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Examples
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I looked back to shore and saw we now had this enormous slate-gray thunderhead approaching us.
Binky Philips: I Visit Graceland and Get Kurt Cobain's Autograph Binky Philips 2011
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Thus, life was always the same in Margaret's bare cubicle up on the fifth floor of the slate-gray Owens& Tabby office building.
Invasive Species E. Victoria Flynn 2011
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We've been married 24 years and the slate-gray Subaru Forester we bought last week marks our marriage's third car.
Life on Four Wheels Ralph gardner Jr. 2010
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The setting for "EXIT," by Dane Laffrey, has a slate-gray hue and looks like a slick back room in a club where the only way out is a single emergency door.
High Decor, Not Demure Robert Greskovic 2011
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I was most impressed by the handsome, slate-gray barber's smocks draped over customers.
Among the Occupiers Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Joe Kohen for The Wall Street Journal The author with the third car of his 24-year marriage, a slate-gray Subaru Forester he picked up on Friday.
Life on Four Wheels Ralph gardner Jr. 2010
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DAYLIGHT HAD DIMMED TO A slate-gray smudge on the western horizon by the time they landed at City Airport in London.
The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010
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Chester produced a slate-gray object made from fossilized ivory.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Chester produced a slate-gray object made from fossilized ivory.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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All he could see was the slag heap, a slate-gray mountain of tailings, waste from the coal mine, mostly shale and sandstone.
'Fall of Giants' 2010
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