All 6 Uses
ashen
in
The Road, by McCarthy
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- Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land.†
*ashen = very pale
- Unsupported in the ashen air.†
- It took two days to cross that ashen scabland.†
- There was a moon somewhere beyond the ashen overcast and they could just make out the trees.†
- A vast low swale where ferns and hydrangeas and wild orchids lived on in ashen effigies which the wind had not yet reached.†
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- There were days when the ashen overcast thinned and now the standing trees along the road made the faintest of shadows over the snow.
*ashen = grayish in color
Definitions:
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(1)
(ashen as in: ashen face) very pale - often due to illness or fear
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, ashen can refer to a color that is light-gray like the color of ashes.