Sentence examples for specific shades from inspiring English sources

(It's common for synesthetes to have very specific shades associated with letters or numbers or food or days of the week).

In our modern world, where there are online reviews for everything from specific brands of ballpoint pen to specific shades of eyeshadow, buyer's remorse should be a thing of the past.

Nike designed four boots for the tournament, each for a different type of player, but colored them all in specific shades of purple and orange, chosen to create maximum contrast.

Another important discovery has been the extent of the variation there is, among normal color perceivers, in the perception of specific shades of color.

Indeed, as we have seen, some acquaintance theorists hold that one is acquainted with or directly aware of all intrinsic sensory or phenomenal features of one's experience, including specific shades of color.

Like the distinction between genus and species, the distinction between determinables and determinates is a relative one; redness is a determinate with respect to color but a determinable with respect to specific shades of red.

It is really a specific shade of red – scarlet – that must carry the can.

I didn't support the colors of a jersey or a specific shade of skin, not even my own.

He famously trademarked a specific shade of blue – Jay Z Blue – which he hoped to exploit, starting with making it the paintwork on a branded Chrysler luxury SUV.

The row revolved around a specific shade of purple – defined as Pantone 2685C – which the Birmingham-based manufacturer maintains it has used since the first world war.

"For those in the know, cognitive bulbs instantly flash to associate: 'Louboutin.' " But recognition aside, the court ruled that allowing Louboutin to claim that scarlet sole as its own would have been like forbidding Monet from using a specific shade of blue in his Water Lilies series because Picasso had been there first with paintings from his Blue Period.