shade
Example Sentences
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Or is it that the shade of his green skin makes them appear more chiseled under bright lights?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
The subterranean Manhattan version is 17,000 square feet—a massive footprint in a famously cramped city—with wavy walls covered in tiles the same green shade as a Swedish princess cake.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Where the former implemented carefully considered, brief glimpses of its female lead to shade her character’s textures, “Obsession” stops caring about Nikki the moment her silhouette is completed.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026
Between the blazing sky and the scorched ground, people do what Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński once observed in another furnace-hot landscape in Africa: devote their energies to "the search for shade and a breeze".
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
As I was passing the Community Church, the calm shade of the graveyard was mighty inviting.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
Vocabulary lists containing shade
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" and "Sonnet 43," Vocabulary from the poems
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