SHADE in a Sentence

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For SHADE, below is one of 242 sentences:
And the voice went off into a whisper as the granddaughter slipped out to try to induce Mr. McRae to return to his seat in the shade.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHADE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shade
 n.  a slight amount or degree of difference; shadow; protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Zeena herself, from an oppressive reality, had faded into an insubstantial shade.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Sometimes their way led them under the shade of an overhanging bank or through the thin obscurity of a clump of leafless trees.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  He walked on to the church corner and entered the shade of the Varnum spruces, where he had stood with her the night before.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  Then, striking upward, it threw a lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  He pulled the sled out, blinking like a night-bird as he passed from the shade of the spruces into the transparent dusk of the open.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  They did not like the dark shade of the thickets hedging the pasture creek, and they twitched their ears at Scarlett as if appreciative of human companionship.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  The old oaks, which had seen Indians pass under their limbs, hugged the house closely with their great trunks and towered their branches over the roof in dense shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  And the voice went off into a whisper as the granddaughter slipped out to try to induce Mr. McRae to return to his seat in the shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  All the ladies except Mrs. Tarleton moved out of the back yard, leaving the shade of oaks and arbor to the men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Through the wide bay window on the lawn she could see the men still lounging in their chairs under the trees and in the shade of the arbor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  The red road lay checkered in shade and sun glare beneath the over-arching trees and the many hooves kicked up little red clouds of dust.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  Gray, as the color of the Confederate uniform, practically disappeared and homespun of a butternut shade took its place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  She turned swiftly to the four negroes who huddled in the doorway, their black faces a peculiarly ashen shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  Without even looking at Scarlett, she went swiftly to each window and drew down the shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  The trees provide shade for the animals in the summer.
17  But TV images require subtle gradations of light and shade.
18  Lots of people were taking a short siesta in the shade.
19  Let's sit in the shade and keep cool.
20  It grows 3 to 5 feet high and wide in moist soil and partial shade and blooms white from June to September.
21  The opaque window shade kept the sunlight out of the room.
22  And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents.
23  The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen's absence, and were resting in the shade.
24  There is room in the Democratic party for many shades of opinion.
25  The walls were painted in two shades of green.
26  The varnish comes in six natural wood shades.
27  The entire valley at my right hand was full of pasture- fields, and cornfields, and wood; and a glittering stream ran zigzag through the varied shades of green, the mellowing grain, and the somber woodland, the clear and sunny lea.
28  The fake cakes made to look freshly iced in pastel shades sit under glass displays.
29  She shut her book and slowly looked up; her hat brim partially shaded her face, yet I could see, as she raised it, that it was a strange one.
30  The boy ran around and stopped within a foot or two of the flower, and then shaded his eyes with his hand and began to look down street as if he had discovered something of interest going on in that direction.