gradate

"The windows will gradate, one side will start all white and become gray," Irwin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2014

Still others use it to describe the ombré plaids popular in Western shirts in which two colors gradate from one to the other.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2010

Nay, I think it may even be a question whether we ought not to resolve that the line should never gradate itself at all, but terminate quite bluntly!

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin

When you can manage to tint and gradate tenderly with the pencil point, get a good large alphabet, and try to tint the letters into shape with the pencil point.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin

Let the reader take the two extreme tints, and carefully gradate the one into the other.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin

Two gradated from separate high schools in the Grosse Pointe district: Brian Fraser, president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and Arielle Anderson.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

He became a star running back in high school, gradated from UC Berkeley and earned his doctorate from Yale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

Makepeace has a background as a sculptor, and he uses gradated color deftly to suggest curving, 3-D forms and the play of light across the telescope’s complex components.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2021

The cover art features the two lawyers smiling blondly, superimposed over a baby-blue gradated background that looks a little like a sky.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2021

He began every crescendo on the precise note where Beethoven marked it to begin; and he gradated it with geometrical faultlessness to the exact note where Beethoven marked it to cease.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by John F. Runciman

On Gabriel’s wings you can make out every last feather, gently gradating from green to gold to grapefruit pink.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020

Another very effective arrangement may be made by gradating a broad border from a white centre, through clear pinks on either side to bright scarlets, and ending at each extremity with deepest crimsons.

From Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley

The practical principle employed in producing them is important, and consists in the blending and gradating by mixture, while we avoid the compounding of contrasting colours.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

Nearly all expression of form, in drawing, depends on your power of gradating delicately; and the gradation is always most skillful which passes from one tint into another very little paler.

From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin

The swinging lines should vary in thickness along their course, getting darker as they pass certain parts, and gradating into lighter lines at other parts according to the effect desired.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed