shade
noun
the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
had shaded
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past perfectof shade.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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At Craig Regional Park in Fullerton, circular dirt patches of dirt are all that remains of dozens of venerable sycamores that had shaded a canyon where families came to picnic and even hold weddings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2017
Just ask Ryan, who bolted for Buffalo and took along his bluster, a bunch of his favorite coaches and the tattoo depicting his wife in a Jets jersey that he promptly had shaded blue.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2015
Orange’s creator, Jenji Kohan, recently said that this storyline was so dark that the show had shaded toward Oz, HBO’s brutal prison series, and that the new season would be “lighter.”
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2015
Forest had shaded the first half, with Simon Cox skewing a swerving effort just past the post.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2012
It was haunting to see them for the first time, stark evidence of the forests in which they’d once stood, and the villages they had shaded.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
