How to Use shading in a Sentence

shading

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • With a deeper warm brown shading the outer edges of her lips— particularly the corners and around her bottom lip—the star’s plump pout looked incredible.
    Hannah Coates, Glamour, 9 Aug. 2024
  • With wood grain detailing, the toaster has seven toast shading levels and can even defrost before toasting.
    Kaitlin Gates, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2024

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