How to Use shading in a Sentence
shading
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Both shapes sit on top of a blue shading with tiny blue and black dots.
— Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022 -
Other than the shading, the plants do no harm to your crape myrtles.
— Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2021 -
The light brown shading shows areas in which the most recent six-month stretch was in the driest 10% of the last 50 years.
— Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2021 -
There are now great programs to help with the coloring and the shading.
— Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2022 -
Kingery was playing deep in the hole and shading toward first.
— Matt Breen, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018 -
The Gouraud shading method is still used by creators of video games and cartoons.
— IEEE Spectrum, 9 June 2023 -
That meant less shading for the Atlantic, allowing the sun to heat it more.
— Matt Simon, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024 -
Just a few feet can make an hour’s difference in the amount of shading, therefore in the vigor of the turf.
— Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 20 Feb. 2020 -
The duo planned on sealing the 35 vents in his home, which is surrounded by a thick shading of trees.
— Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2019 -
The outline must be approved by the artist and shading will cost extra.
— Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2024 -
Mindless shading builds the mental space to focus on the tunes.
— Matt Miller, Esquire, 1 Feb. 2016 -
Control weeds through mulching and shading by the trees themselves.
— Noris Ledesma, miamiherald, 22 June 2017 -
But look at it again, look and see how the white line and the shading in there, there was a discrepancy in there that could be the TV.
— Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018 -
To even out the extra shading on the top lip, Hailey adds a few strokes of the brown pencil to the fullest part of her bottom lip.
— Seventeen, 23 Aug. 2022 -
But the man in a simple black habit who met me was young, with kind eyes, a boyish face, and a light shading of stubble.
— Matías Costa, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018 -
But the real star is the relief shading, added later by the people at Muir Way.
— Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022 -
The judges said: The use of shading and reflection was impressive.
— Karly Imus, OregonLive.com, 13 Dec. 2017 -
The bright shading of our favorite red-brown tone plays in stark contrast to the roots, drawing the eye down and making your hair look longer.
— Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2023 -
On one end, the firm, hard point allows for precise shading and filling.
— Jessica Prince Erlich, The Cut, 15 Dec. 2017 -
Then smudge it out with a medium shading brush; doing the same on your bottom lash line, too.
— Julianne Carell, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2017 -
The idea is to use shading and patterning to fool the eye into seeing slimmer legs and butts.
— Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2018 -
The body oozes: thick urine, yellow shading into crimson along the foggy licorice-rope of a catheter.
— Ellen Wayland-Smith, Longreads, 21 Mar. 2018 -
Our free pumpkin carving pattern will show you how to get the shading on this adorable tiny pooch just right.
— Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2022 -
But face makeup and blush and shading and everything like that?
— Amy Kaufmanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019 -
Some of the shading around the boxes that tax filers complained about has been removed, making the form brighter.
— Ed Leefeldt, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2019 -
Yoon and Kim agree: Ombré lips and hair shading, both ways to fake fullness, are huge in Korea right now.
— Alexandra Tunell, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Jan. 2016 -
While both stars play Birdie along the same lines, each brings very different shadings to Regina.
— The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2017 -
Asawa played with looping lines, broken lines, zigzag lines and the short, clustered lines of crosshatching and shading, and ideas just seemed to pour forth.
— Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023 -
Thanks to this expert shading, the hair looks as if natural light makes the roots and some strands darker while some are lighter, as if kissed by the sun.
— Anna Bader, Glamour, 22 Aug. 2023 -
For example, brush textures applied to Roz drove the simplification of her features and shading.
— Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2024
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