shade

Example Sentences

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Skelly showed Mugoboka the tree planting she has been doing to reduce the impact of flooding and to provide shade to her animals during hotter, drier summers.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

“People don’t know the sacrifice, what it’s like to eat in the hot sun, when they used to not provide shade, when there weren’t bathrooms nearby,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

The big cats and other hunters that these foragers feared had many fewer eccrine sweat glands than humans; predators had to stay cool in the daytime by hunkering in the shade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Elders get their hearing checked and play mahjongg and practice calligraphy in the shade of empty plazas.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

When I go out, she likes to wait for me on shore, somewhere in the shade, because her pale white skin burns so easily.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy