Sentence examples for modest shade from inspiring English sources

Most of the evergreen hedge plants will thrive in modest shade.

She must have been in her mid-80s, she was immaculately put together, nails done, big rock on her finger, lipstick (modest shade), hair coifed, colorful scarf covering her head.

The kind of thing I'd never have worn before, favoring instead more modest shades of blue or purple or green.

"There are various types of gauchos: those who look for trouble; those who are valiant soldiers; those who meekly take orders," said Arminio Seiferheld, 70, who owns a small herd of Braford cattle and lives in a modest house shaded by palm trees.

The neighborhood, a few miles east of downtown El Paso, is modest, with little shade and many unbuilt lots.

Soffa describes it as a "modest roof-deck shade screen" that also serves as an open-roof terrace.

Our results demonstrated that a combination of practical operational modifications (air-conditioner cycling, doing laundry later in the evening) and commercially-available technology (exterior shading, modest PV array, energy-efficient lighting) was able to dramatically reduce (in some cases to zero) the peak electrical demand from the grid on the hottest days of the year.

There are probably plenty of places like the Edmont to be found in the city today, though whether people are any more modest about pulling down the shades now than in 1951 is anybody's guess.

That modest effort was put in the shade by the Windies as they breezed past their target with 23 balls remaining, hitting five sixes along the way.

He and his wife, Rosemary, live in an apartment in the back of a modest two-story house in Maple Shade, a town of about 19,000 residents east of Camden.

A modest manner belied a detachment that shaded into arrogance.