What is "graying"

Usage examples of "graying".

His bushy, graying hair served to double the apparent size of his head.

Marcia Fairfield was a graying biologist out of Cambridge, well respected, a part of the original Operation Rhino project, often called the Jane Goodall of rhinos.

He thinks he sees her go by without slowing at about five-forty, a green Taurus busting past in a rain which has now become heavy, a green Taurus that might or might not be pulling a light yellow nimbus behind it that fades at once in the graying air.

He was middle-aged with graying hair, his face pitted, and he walked with a slight limp.

The older, graying wolf looked at the woman and moved silently to her side.

Rezs hissed at the creature and lunged around those massive, graying shoulders, but the old wolf shouldered her brutally, turning her back to Coale by slamming into her thighs.

Their youth was no surprise, of course, but she had expected Conail to have a graying head at his side to advise him and the others to have their guardians looking over their shoulders.

No doubt they thought they saw two noblewomen arguing in the graying evening and wanted to attract no part of that anger on themselves.

Davram Bashere appeared even shorter than he really was alongside the Ogier, a graying man with dark tilted eyes, a beak of a nose, and thick mustaches curving down around his mouth.

He had not shaved yet this morning, and graying stubble grizzled his chin.

With a sigh, Perrin returned the dented cup to the blocky little woman he had borrowed it from, a graying cart driver who spread her dark skirts in a curtsy.

Indeed, Will was just a younger version of Pa, tall and thin with graying reddish brown hair.

Hiram was a tall, thin man with a friendly smile and graying blonde hair and hazel eyes.

And distinguished with an impeccably trimmed mustache and dark, graying hair.

His suntanned skin was highlighted by his gently graying hair and twinkling brown eyes.