Cobalt is a bluish-gray, shiny, brittle metallic element.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cobalt] Reference

The man's sullen black eyes held the clear, bluish-gray ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference

The old woman's bluish-gray eyes narrowed to slits as she thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roses are Red]

Where filaments should have been there was a thin cylinder of bluish-gray metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raid on the Termites] Reference

A crown of bluish-gray light lay flat and fading against the distant western horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naked] Reference

Its comparatively smooth, bluish-gray bark makes it a distinctive tree at all seasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference

He has an exceptionally high and full forehead, a prominent nose, and bluish-gray eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference

Its needles are a dull bluish-gray to silvery blue, and emit a resinous odor when crushed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

The color of the bark in the ironwood is brownish, while that of the blue beech is bluish-gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

THE FAMILIAR, WELCOMING SIGN loomed in swirling mists of bluish-gray fog: BEAR BLUFF NEXT EXIT.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Wind Blows]

Hatchlings are covered in a layer of gray fluffy down, which molts to a bluish-gray second down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black-footed penguin] Reference

The adults die but the eggs give rise to tiny, bluish-gray larvae which feed chiefly on grass roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference

Grecian islands, -- pale bluish-gray, taking a soft orange tint on the faces most exposed to the weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

You can see that in the rivers, in the streams that normally would be a clear, maybe a bluish-gray color.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2005] Reference

The background was a shadowy suggestion of steppe farm-land, unobtrusively implying vast distances of bluish-gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

It was a sort o 'bluish-gray color. An' it had a very long tail curled up at the end, which it moved like a cat's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference

These speckled eggs of a bluish-gray belong to the linnet, which has a very sweet song, although not very powerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn.] Reference

She was dressed in a beautiful bluish-gray, and the sun behind her drew her outline in gold and left the rest in shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference

They seemed-he looked more closely'the sheets seemed to be of some vegetable fiber, the blankets of long bluish-gray hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agent Of The Terran Empire]

The blue building there, bluish-gray building next to it, if you saw the backside of that, you'd know why they'd say it's not safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2005] Reference

For that, last year, I wore a brand new -- from Saks -- beautiful, bluish-gray sports jacket and slacks, and shirt and tie to match.    From Wordnik.com.  [ESPN's Dick Vitale] Reference

During these transformations the original cream-white color of the germ changes into pale gray, and finally into a deep bluish-gray color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference

Others give the color as bluish-gray, nearly black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth] Reference

These are usually painted green or bright bluish-gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

It has been used for a range of pale colors from a yellow-green to a bluish-gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference

They were bluish-gray in color, and many of them well covered with the berry-vine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl in the Golden Atom] Reference

The tan pongee dress she wore set off her dark hair and expressive, bluish-gray eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [North of Fifty-Three] Reference

At first it appears all gray, a vapory gray; then it becomes bluish-gray; then all green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

The regions affected were mostly of a dirty-brown color, but in patches of a bluish-gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

His eyes were bluish-gray and I saw at once that he habitually looked at things afar off.    From Wordnik.com.  [1492] Reference

Lead is a heavy, low melting, bluish-gray metal that occurs naturally in the Earth's crust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

His eyes were bluish-gray, and, though not dark, yet at times were sparkling and expressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crayon Papers] Reference

I recognized her dyed bluish-gray hair instantly when I stepped onto the elevator at my hotel.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

It was very cold, and both men wore long, dark, bluish-gray overcoats, cut in the latest mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Financier, a novel] Reference

The roof has fallen, and the topmost layers of the bluish-gray limestone are ragged and time-worn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama] Reference