Example sentences for: shade

How can you use “shade” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Clinton ruined his speech last August by blaming Starr and Paula Jones' lawyers for forcing him to shade the truth to fend off Starr's investigation, which had "gone on too long, cost too much, and hurt too many innocent people."

  • That strikes me as a shade less than clinically reliable; in fact, it makes me angry!

  • Left long enough, the burning shade will set the house on fire.

  • Some have ample shade and others are treeless, catering to ardent sun worshippers.

  • Deadly nightshade and woody nightshade , the narcotic plants commonly known as belladonna and bittersweet, have their origins in Old English nihtscada, niht night and scada shade.


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