Sentence examples for a shade smaller from inspiring English sources

Far less well-known than the NSA, the NRO has a budget that is only a shade smaller -- $10.3 billion a year -- and provides satellite-based surveillance capabilities.

Their new store downtown, in rustic Sicilian style, is a shade smaller than the original.

These bass were only a shade smaller than the Hamptons fish but big nonetheless.

The bruise was about a shade smaller than a baseball and potentially dangerous.

The original is more like an oversize doughnut hole, a shade smaller than a baseball, filled with red bean paste and dusted with sugar.

While the waves were estimated to be as high as 60 feet, they were ruled to be a shade smaller than the monstrous swells of Maui's Jaws.

In that role the soprano Christine Schäfer failed to make much of an impact, with a voice that sounded a shade too small.

Their lovely timbres blended well and with a power that was sometimes missing from the first two lessons, where their individual voices, expressive as they were, sounded a shade too small for the large space.

I'm a tall, lean fellow, so XL is just a shade too small and XXL is too baggy.

The tree could alsb be planted to shade small rhododendrons or to face down tall ever greens.

Competition for light can be asymmetrical with larger plants disproportionately shading smaller ones, but competition for soil resources is more symmetric.