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View synonyms for shades

shades

/ ʃeɪdz /

plural noun

  1. gathering darkness at nightfall
  2. a slang word for sunglasses
  3. the shades
    often capital a literary term for Hades
  4. foll by of undertones or suggestions

    shades of my father!

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.

And we do mean drunken—in the keep your kids at home, pull the shades kind of drunken.

Click on it, gaze over it, and think about which of those states in the two shades of light blue might rush to buy into Obamacare.

This, alas, was the point when Fifty Shades of Grey had somehow storyline-mashed with Gone Girl.

But Poitras and her colleagues have little interest in that sort of shades of gray complexity.

There were yet two mortal hours to get through, and the men of the party sought the cool shades of the vicarage garden.

It is necessary to have all the various shades of color in order to meet the demand for the various flavors desired.

Here was a light-blue pair; there were some lavender, some all black and various shades of tan and gray.

No correspondence exhibits more careful attention, finer shades of meaning or more amiable pleasantries.

They are in plain netting, and will require white, and five shades of scarlet wool.

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