(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.
Creamy
Definition:
(a.) Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
(2) For the filling, cream the remaining butter with the sugar until very creamy.
(3) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
(4) When combined with zinc oxide powder, a creamy mixture results.
(5) The cystic cavities contained turbid chocolate-colored fluid or a yellowish creamy substance.
(6) After an observation period of 1 month, bacteria were found on the pulpal wall in two out of 10 cavities beneath Fluoritec and four out of 10 cavities beneath Durelon solid mixed, De Trey phosphate cement solid or creamy mixed.
(7) It is still pasteurised, to kill any bacteria, but even the semi-skimmed varieties are sold with the almost-forgotten creamy top.
(8) Photograph: Sam Jones for the Guardian For the time being, though, its success will rest on the world’s appetite for the creamy-coloured fruit of the baobab.
(9) For the dressing 1 tbsp cider or white-wine vinegar 3 tbsp olive oil Flaky sea salt and freshly ground black pepper For the salad A couple of handfuls rocket leaves 80g semi-soft blue cheese 6 dates, pitted and sliced 50g hazelnuts, toasted and roughly chopped Whisk together the vinegar and oil until you have a creamy emulsion, then pour a tablespoon into the bottom of a bowl.
(10) It comes, as it should, in a bag of liquid, and is firm to the touch but with a good level of gentle fluffiness inside and a delicate, creamy aftertaste.
(11) With gorgeously savoury ribs, a rib-sticking Italian soup, and a creamy Keralan fish curry on the menu, it was particularly tough to pick a favourite, but for sheer alchemy, James Connery's magically melting ox cheek ragu took some beating.
(12) When the rice is plump and creamy, stir in the sugar and let it dissolve, then fold in the mascarpone.
(13) "It's beautiful, balanced, with a creamy mouthfeel," she says in tones of rapture.
(14) Accessible only on foot, the Needles section of the Canyonlands national park has pink and creamy turrets, chimneys, gullies, mysterious canyons and weird formations.
(15) The diagnosis is generally easily established by the presence, in standing plasma, of a creamy chylomicron layer over a clear infranatant and by the large predominance of triglycerides over cholesterol in the plasma.
(16) Three-chilli fish Don’t be intimidated by the amount of chilli in this: the ancho is much more about smoke than heat, plus the creamy tahini sauce evens things out.
(17) It was clear, colourless, and slightly viscous by day 50, but creamy, more viscous, and mucoid by days 100 and 150.
(18) Beneath the intermediary base materials Dycal, zinc oxide-eugenol cement, Dropsin and Durelon creamy mixed, no bacteria were found.
(19) In the green and pleasant English village of Warnham, the elderflower and hawthorn are in full, scented, creamy bloom and the sun umbrellas are up in the pub’s well-tended garden.
(20) Whether creamy or semi-skimmed, from Jersey or Lancashire, milk in Britain is always tasty.