Used in a Sentence

shades

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shades.

Editorial note

It has shades of Alice in Wonderland, cyberpunk, casual sexual themes, jazz and rock and roll.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(colloquial) Sunglasses.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shades gathered in one view.

noun

(colloquial) Sunglasses.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shades.

Example sentences

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It has shades of Alice in Wonderland, cyberpunk, casual sexual themes, jazz and rock and roll.

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There are a million shades between quiet disclosure and outright stupidity that would still make headlines.

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Instead they chose to start from scratch and do Facebook in shades of red.

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Better reading 50 shades of gray than playing with a Boston Dynamic doll.

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I think we're buying way too much into genetic determinism here and this all sounds like shades of eugenics.

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Then the 5th book is a real thriller with shades of the original.

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Mobile version will not have nested comments, and instead varying shades of orange border and a number that indicates it's position in the thread.

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There's no shades of gray there, endangering people's lives and health to effectively show off is absolutely immoral and should be illegal (and likely is).

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This seems to be shades of aggregate content farm business models.

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Politicians are politicians: it's never white, it's just shades of gray.

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This may seem confusing, but there are lots of phrases in lots of languages that have shades of meaning depending on context, so it is not unique.

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On a near-noise level, virtually all conversation or interaction can and mostly does contain shades of meaning expressing things that when verbalized explicitly would be considered rude or inappropriate.

Quote examples

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For instance, many with severe personality disorders have a tendency to dichotomize everything with difficulty integrating "shades of grey" into every day thinking.

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There are a ton of shades here, but you fixated on the idea of "betrayal", as if all things with this pattern were uniformly bad.

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Sort of like being "color blind" to shades of green or red, or deaf to hearing "15kHz" sounds such as cymbals.

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Frame the narrative to fit the controversy ("50 white male racist misogynist neck beards' who want to chase women out of tech again!") Ignore the 199,950 shades of gray and all other motivation behind the users and everything else.

Proper noun examples

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Shades of the Convair B-36 Peacemaker, the predecessor to the B-52.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shades in a sentence?

It has shades of Alice in Wonderland, cyberpunk, casual sexual themes, jazz and rock and roll.

What does shades mean?

(colloquial) Sunglasses.

What part of speech is shades?

shades is commonly used as noun.