shades

/ ʃeɪdz /

plural noun

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

   shades of my father!

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• specs
• sunglasses