Slate Gray

I looked back to shore and saw we now had this enormous slate-gray thunderhead approaching us. ❋ Binky Philips (2011)

Thus, life was always the same in Margaret's bare cubicle up on the fifth floor of the slate-gray Owens& Tabby office building. ❋ E. Victoria Flynn (2011)

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. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2011)

I was most impressed by the handsome, slate-gray barber's smocks draped over customers. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

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. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2010)

We've been married 24 years and the slate-gray Subaru Forester we bought last week marks our marriage's third car. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2010)

In color it was a light blue on top, a whitish slate-gray underneath. ❋ Sugu Althomsons (2010)

Chester produced a slate-gray object made from fossilized ivory. ❋ Gene Weingarten (2010)

Louis was nevertheless glad that nobody had hit him anything in the air because it was hard to see the ball against the slate-gray sky. ❋ WES TOOKE (2010)

At three the whistle blasted, the thick hawsers were loosed from the dock, the big diesels churned and backed from the pier, and we headed out into a windy, slate-gray Sea of Cortez. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)

DAYLIGHT HAD DIMMED TO A slate-gray smudge on the western horizon by the time they landed at City Airport in London. ❋ Davis Bunn (2010)

All he could see was the slag heap, a slate-gray mountain of tailings, waste from the coal mine, mostly shale and sandstone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I loved that slate-gray Jaguar with its flaming-red interior and coal-black convertible top. ❋ Natalie Cole (2010)

The vet knew my husband, James, would be bringing him in, and as I closed the door to the carrier, I stroked the slate-gray fur of his forehead. ❋ Jack Canfield (2009)