shades

Example Sentences

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Two smaller chapels—one blood red, and the other white—contrast with the interior’s shades of gray, as do stained-glass and hand-painted windows, which, in handwriting, call out the Virgin by name, “Marie.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Bands of lavender shifted back and forth overhead, faded out, and returned in shades of orange and yellow.

From Literature

Often dressed in black from head to toe, including a black traditional Nepali cap and shades, Balen, 36, has come to represent the hopes of many young middle-class Nepalis.

From The Wall Street Journal

They do not explain how people like Reverend Hammond experienced sliding tables, unrolling window shades, and moving cabinet drawers.

From Literature

Red brighter than strawberries, yellow like sunshine, blue like the morning sky and blue like deep water, green like the forest leaves, and all shades in between, colors I had never seen in the world.

From Literature