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Example sentences for: shades

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

The whole composition is rendered in pulsating shades of red.
Autumn brings the finest hues to the landscape, when the leaves turn shades of apricot and copper, the bracken changes to a burnt umber, and the hillsides glow in the low sunlight, reflecting perfectly in the glassy stillness of the lakes.
He could paint a violin as a number of superimposed geometrical shapes of varying shades of brown.
If so, is he filling a much needed, or a much lamented, gap in turning issues that are really cast in pastel shades into Day-Glo relief?
Or consider Robin Cook's thriller Chromosome 6 . Molecular biologist Kevin Marshall works at a secret lab in Africa (shades of Moreau) fiddling with the DNA of apes to render their organs immunologically fit for transplanting into rich Americans.