Example Sentences

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Seagle’s last stop was the towering Moreton Bay fig that had shaded the property for decades.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2025

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