Sentence examples for of a certain shade from inspiring English sources
So she called her factory & had them send out several dozen boxes of powdered rouge of a certain shade, and rubbed it into rug by hand.
When David Kratz enrolled at the New York Academy of Art three years ago, at age 48, he talked a lot to his fellow students, who were mostly in their 20s, about studio practice, about his love of a certain shade of teal he used in flesh tones, about upcoming shows, but rarely about his life before he enrolled.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, October 7, 1933 P. 15 We deduce from the great number of ladies' dresses of a certain shade which are appearing on the streets, that we are on the eve of another great period of industrial prosperity.
In keeping with Wurm's tongue-in-cheek approach to formalism, and his proclivity for a certain shade of pink that democratizes his miscellany of creations, the sculpture is attired in a proper New York trench coat and its arms and head have been subsumed into a solid block of an abdomen, somewhat mirroring the hotel's own rectilinear silhouette, but also bringing to mind a giant Popsicle.
We learned that all it takes is one or two special touches — a certain shade of red, a pair of glittery heels or a velvet tux jacket — to be Christmasy without the kitsch.
We're given only a glimpse of the bag, but we can see that the crystal at its bottom is a certain shade of blue — the same color it takes on when it is cooked by Walter White, the "Breaking Bad" drug-lord-in-training played by Bryan Cranston.
Color, for instance: "A certain shade of orange would send him into a faraway place".
She could convince you that a certain shade of eye shadow was really flattering even if you never wore eye shadow and had no intention of doing so.
She cites Andy Warhol, claims to be a "fame Robin Hood" who has lost her mind, opines in public about whether a certain shade of red is "Communist," and has dropped Rilke's name more than once.
Which have necessitated new conventions: whenever you see objects in a certain shade of blue, for example, you know you can manipulate them using the touch-screen, while green objects can be pushed towards you using the rear touch-panel.
In Jeff Nichols's Midnight Special, two of the biggest surprises are particular visual effects, so I'll disclose just one, namely that this terrific American science fiction/thriller hybrid does some (literally) dazzling things with a certain shade of blue light.
