gradate
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"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
From this point the dark and light masses gradate in different directions until they merge above the ships' sails.
From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
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
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
Next, he had to meticulously coat each strand with several gradated shades of gray spray paint to create an image that would only be clearly visible when viewed at a distance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
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
The massive yet delicate piece, a version of which was shown at the American University Museum in 2019, symbolically depicts invasive species of mussels in subtly gradated shades of blue and green.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022
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
It will be seen in the figure there given, that this change is not sudden, but gradated.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
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
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
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
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
Nearly all expression of form, in drawing, depends on your power of gradating delicately; and the gradation is always most skilful which passes from one tint into another very little paler.
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
