Word: grayish
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...sampled our two standards and their flavorof the month, Kit Kat Crumble. The Chocolate andVanilla were unremarkable and had a mildlyartificial taste. The chocolate's "Grayish color"caused some reviewers a bit of concern, and thevanilla tasted a little too strong to be natural...
Wollaston's sand is the standard grayish stuff, laced with dried seaweed and a little shredded garbage. Closer to the shore, the sand becomes mucky and less-than-inviting to potential waders...
...fluorescent gloom pervades the courtroom for Criminal Business of the Third District Court of east Middlesex Country. The ceiling lights have the grayish-white color of dirty institutional bed linen, and colors are sapped, dulled in this civil service twilight. The chalkboard looks olive drab, the cheap wall veneer blends into the dusty browns of the portraits. Even the well-tanned private lawyers look wan and pasty...
Even from a distance, the grayish two-story home with panoramic windows and pointed chimney casts a distinctive profile against the suburban sky. But only a closer inspection reveals what is truly unique about this house. Instead of sporting bricks or aluminum siding, the dwelling is covered with superstrong, superdurable plastic panels. The shingles on its vaulted roof are made not of wood but of another tough plastic; so too, in fact, are the floors, doorframes, light fixtures, plumbing pipes and even the windows...
...procedure lacked the drama of an epochal event. For 28 minutes, a grayish liquid in a suspended plastic bag dripped intravenously into the left hand of the child, who sat upright in a bed in the Clinical Center's pediatric intensive-care unit. That was it. But if the technique works as the doctors hope it will, the results could be little short of miraculous. Their patient may eventually begin to lead a normal life, without need for the costly and only partly effective drug now used to extend the lives of young victims of the disease...