shade
Example Sentences
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Duvall shades Sonny’s run from the law into a nuanced portrayal of wounded pride and unanswerable questions.
From Los Angeles Times
Then, sitting in the shade of a palm tree, she knotted the squares down the sides and across the bottom.
From Literature
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“Duvall’s aging face, a road map of dead ends and dry gulches, can accommodate rage or innocence or any ironic shade in between,” the film critic Richard Corliss wrote in Time magazine.
After the trees are delivered, the family sprays the trees with water every night and keeps them shaded from the sun so they don’t dry out.
From Los Angeles Times
Gray shading marked the contours of a cockpit window.
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