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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 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.
(Shades of Hillary banning smoking in the White House?)
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.
Michael Ovitz appeared in a Bulworth outfit of wraparound shades and a black knit cap.
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?