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Definition of grey-faced in English: grey-facedadjective Pale from tiredness, age, or ill health. long lines of grey-faced unemployed at open-air soup kitchens Example sentencesExamples - It was thronged with Red Guards, stumbling along on foot toward the revolutionary front, shouting and singing; and others, greyfaced and muddy, coming back.
- He turns to stare at the dark-haired man lying on the bed, a battered and gray-faced ghost barely resembling the brother Greg remembers.
- When I showed up grey-faced and stressed, he suggested that I was completely depleted of energy.
- They were unshaven, grey-faced, and their dressings were soaked with blood.
- Tonight though, the flu epidemic has hit lead singer Stuart and he crawls to the stage in a cold, grey faced sweat.
- He has had very little sleep and is grey-faced as he throws down his coffee.
- Her friend sits, grey faced, in the waiting room.
- The casino was packed with grey-faced gambling holidaymakers, their credit cards on a chain from their pocket to the machines.
- The rest of us just continue to be stressed out, over worked, ashen and grey faced and up to our necks in debt.
- Modelled on the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, it showed row upon row of grey-suited, grey-faced male automatons (for which read PC users) sitting in front of a huge screen upon which Big Brother pontificates.
- Grey-faced, off-duty officers stood along Kirkgate with wives, mothers, fathers, parents-in-law and grandparents of serving officers, retired officers and special constables.
- We piled into the car and joined the other grey-faced parents sitting uncomfortably at the semi-permanent temporary traffic lights on both sides of a big deserted hole.
- In his last appearance on video in December 2001, he appeared grey-faced and tired, unable to move his left side.
- Gorman was rich but, grey-faced and bent, he died a season later.
- In a room of a few square metres a dim bulb revealed perhaps twenty-five tousle-haired grey-faced snoring snuffling bodies side by side.
- In another basement space the demented, clacking linotype machines stamped out our stories in hot metal while their grey-faced operators somehow stayed noisily blithe.
- Grey faced and covered in dust and wood splinters, they pulled Elli out of the fallen remains of the shelter and Andrew pushed through to drag her into his arms.
- On our first walk through Odessa, an ancient seaport city, we found gray-faced pensioners sitting in front of crumbling apartment buildings behind battered card tables, selling old shoes and an occasional old cabbage.
- He had to appear before the cameras, grey-faced, once again on the defensive, fending off reporters ' questions about his own future.
- I didn't even have to gaze out at rails or look around at grey-faced fellow commuters as I travelled to my destination.
Synonyms pale, wan, pasty, grey, leaden, colourless, sallow, pallid, white, waxen, ghostly
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