Greying
greying (adjective) -
a. hair turning grey
b. a group of people is getting older, population ageing
greying hair
heavily greying
rather wild greying hair
a greying moustache
greying at the temples
greying population
greying world population
a greying city
the greying of nations
greying baby-boomers
Example sentences:
* "Because much of Buick's success is based on sales to the over-50s, its target customers will eventually be replaced by greying baby-boomers; the very customers it once steered away from." (Source: British National Corpus)
* The greying of nations is presented as an inescapable world wide pandemic from which there is no escape.
* She thought every single person in the room, all the greying businessmen, all the young secretaries, were beautiful.
* "The greying of the City, you could euphemistically call it."
* "The twenty first century looms with a growing and greying world population..."
* "Some say the greying population is wasted human capital."
* "Greying Japan sees budget swell." (Source: BBC Headline)
* "Fears over Japan's greying population."
* "...his hair on the blond side of chestnut (now heavily greying)..."
* "...a tall slim woman with greying hair drawn back in a pony tail..."
* "Dr Mackintosh was a red-faced Scot with mousy greying hair parted in the middle and tiny gold-rimmed glasses on the tip of his rather short nose."
* "He's in his late forties, tall, has a good deal of rather wild, greying hair, and a cardigan that must have been home-made."
* "...male newsreaders are sort of father figures, greying at the temples, reliable and impartial in their authority."
* "Gladstone Murray was a round-faced balding man whose spectacles often slipped down his nose; he had a greying moustache and he invariably carried his drinking glass between two fingers at the top of the glass." (Source: British National Corpus)
