(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
(n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most defendants in multimillion-euro fraud cases turn up to court ashen-faced and sullen-looking.
(2) In the ashen aftermath of war, it is impossible to imagine what this place looked like before, or what really happened here.
(3) Of the 33 symptom complex patients, 5 had Atropine, most of whose heart rates returned to normal after 2 seconds to 2 minutes, as did their dizziness, perspiration, and ashen coloring.
(4) Having spent more than £1bn they do not expect to be at Wembley ashen-faced, watching a limp defeat in front of a global audience.
(5) Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt walk into the green room, looking ashen.
(6) The murine dilute suppressor gene, dsu, was previously shown to suppress the dilute coat color phenotypes of mice homozygous for the dilute (d), leaden (ln), and ashen (ash) mutations.
(7) On a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees, buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads.
(8) The last time Alan Pardew faced Sunderland he ended the afternoon ashen-faced and speaking of deep hurt.
(9) The bit I love was David Beckham afterwards, he was sort of ashen-faced, and he said: ‘I don’t mind people lying to me, but lying to the future King of England?
(10) The French president, who travelled to Nice with the prime minister, Manuel Valls, after delivering an ashen-faced TV address at 4am from the presidential palace, was under pressure to explain what concrete measures he had taken since the Paris attacks in November to crack down on the threat of terrorism.
(11) This goes on for several minutes until, finally, Eldar, ashen, tight-lipped, excuses himself, pulls his microphone from his shirt, and exits the studio.
(12) As Melancholia's star Dunst looked on ashen-faced – at one point attempting to halt his flow with a restraining arm on his shoulder – he said: "I thought I was a Jew for a long time and was very happy being a Jew ... Then it turned out that I was not a Jew ...
(13) Antin said an ashen-faced and “visibly shaken” O’Reilly rushed down a nearby alleyway with a secondary cameraman to film replacement shots, which were to be broadcast later as if live.
(14) A s the survivors of Australia 's bushfires began to emerge from the ashen landscape, so too did the stories .
(15) In Tatton, Cheshire, an ashen-faced George Osborne is shown on TV conceding defeat.
(16) Steven Gerrard and Martin Skrtel look fairly distraught, while Brendan Rodgers is ashen-faced on the sideline.
(17) It wasn’t hard to imagine the ashen-faced Sir Humphreys praising his “courageous” suggestions.
(18) All of France is under threat from Islamist terrorism,” said an ashen-faced Hollande in a televised address from the presidential palace just before 4am, hours after a driver ploughed a lorry at high speed into a crowd gathered on the Nice seafront to watch the Bastille Day fireworks.
(19) Some pigment is often present in the mandibles and the mature feathers display an ashen cast.
(20) Their ashen faces told of the real disaster hitting Japan.
Ashes
Definition:
(n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.
(n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay.
(n. pl.) The color of ashes; deathlike paleness.
Example Sentences:
(1) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.
(2) DES implantation increased the body weight of the ram by 10.4% and caused no significant change in total body water, body ash, or total muscle mass.
(3) Implants and femurs from both Cl2MBP groups had a higher ash content than controls, but uptake of the two isotopes was not affected.
(4) I told a police officer and a support worker that as a last resort I was thinking of getting on contact with Ash again.
(5) Results indicate that the rachitogenic factor in rye is not present in the ash portion of the grain, that it can be largely overcome by water extraction and penicillin supplementation, and that an organic solvent extraction has no effect.
(6) Minimal frequency for tonic firing and the slope of the linear portion of the frequency-current relation were indirectly related to the duration of the ASH.
(7) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.
(8) The dependence of the enzyme on Mg++ and Co++ for activity in the presence of high ash concentration was demonstrated.
(9) Tibial breaking strength and tibial percentage ash of the progeny at hatching was markedly improved in proportion to maternal phosphorus and food intake.
(10) Analyses of body composition indicated DHEA-treated animals had proportionately less body fat and therefore more body water, protein and ash than controls.
(11) Forage contents of CP and ash showed a cubic (P less than .05) response to advancing stage of regrowth, with highest (23.6 and 11.0%, respectively) and lowest (14.7 and 9.1%, respectively) values for both fractions occurring at wk 1 and 5, respectively.
(12) Mount Sakurajima in the south of the Kyushu Island of Japan erupts hundreds of times a year and continuously emits large amounts of ash.
(13) The caption blamed "the dogs of the Interior [ministry]", and claimed that incendiary bombs had been fired at the building by police, "causing a very big fire" that "burned everything to ashes".
(14) But we will need the nurseries as they are going to be very important in restocking woods" if varieties that are resistant to ash dieback become available.
(15) The government banned imports of ash trees last Monday after a programme in which 100,000 specimens have been destroyed since the disease was discovered in March.
(16) Thyroxine complementation in TX or TPTX mothers induced a normalization of the fetal percentage of ash in both cases; a trend towards an increased value was observed in the percentage of ash of fetal femurs.
(17) These phantoms are made of bone ash suspended in white petrolatum in varying concentrations.
(18) Out of them 84 cases of advanced left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) [37 cases of symmetric hypertrophy (HT-SH group) and 47 cases of ASH (HT-ASH group)] were compared in their clinical and echocardiographic findings with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(19) The IFS’s preference is to use ASHE as its measure of earnings with the Consumer Prices Index including housing costs as its benchmark for inflation.
(20) Material effects included lower %ash (approximately 2%) in the femora and tibiae as well as in the humeri of suspended mice compared to controls.