shade

Example Sentences

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Skelly showed Mugoboka the tree planting she has been doing to reduce the impact of flooding and to provide shade to her animals during hotter, drier summers.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

The cost, I’m told, would depend on what the enhancements include: signs, lights, trees, shade canopies, sidewalk repairs, escalators, and so on.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

The big cats and other hunters that these foragers feared had many fewer eccrine sweat glands than humans; predators had to stay cool in the daytime by hunkering in the shade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Gomez asked me as we stood in the shade of a cargo truck.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

And was it not the case that Agatha Swanburne’s hair was also a distinctive shade of auburn?

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood