Example sentences for: shades

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

  • He's wearing shades, with a too-wide tie, grinning, with a flack by his side, looking for all the world like a don out of the opening scene in Godfather II , when Michael Corleone coughs up some dough for the state of Nevada and then has that immortal conversation with the shady senator.

  • From the Zapruder film to the Clint Eastwood film, the popular image of the Secret Service agent--stiff posture, of dark suit and shades, the walkie-talkies, the microphone in the sleeve--is one of laconic, unflappable, and self-abnegating cool.

  • The flabby man on the bus wears wrinkled pants, shirt, and windbreaker in nondescript shades of gray, but on his feet are enormous shoes sculpted out of bulbous shapes in dazzling white and purple, Olympic echoes in a sedentary life.

  • By far the most interesting sight in town, though, is the Fábrica Real de Tapeçarias (Tapestry Factory), housed in a 17th-century Jesuit school, where dozens of women use great handlooms to weave carpets from thousands of different shades of wool.

  • The whole composition is rendered in pulsating shades of red.


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