shade
Example Sentences
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“People don’t know the sacrifice, what it’s like to eat in the hot sun, when they used to not provide shade, when there weren’t bathrooms nearby,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
Under the shade of a nearby tree in Kakwanyang village, three women sit together pounding wild brown fruits with a hard, rough and lumpy exterior.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
Easy-to-wear staples in every shade of the rainbow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Elders get their hearing checked and play mahjongg and practice calligraphy in the shade of empty plazas.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
His weight-for-size should be about forty pounds—and that would be a shade heavy.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
