Sentence examples for turn shade from inspiring English sources

By placing a long poem at the center of "Pale Fire," and refusing to turn Shade into a character clearly divisible from himself (unlike Kinbote or Humbert Humbert), Nabokov encourages and deepens this confusion.

We turn shades into shapes, and then shapes into symbols.

In "Bright and Hollow Sky," the ellipses turn shades of green to form a swatch of lunar topiary.

When iron oxidizes, or rusts, it typically turns shades of red, orange or purple.

Her skin had turned shades of blue, as though she'd been punched.

Hike along trails lined with larches turning shades of gold, amber, bronze and copper, then relax in the hotel's spa.

"I was turning shades of green," he said with a laugh during a recent interview in his Upper West Side apartment, where he was flanked by a Bechstein piano and his 7-year-old son.

The envelope box turns shades of green, blue, and red depending upon how many unread e-mails you have and you can even set it to flash on and off until you check your mail (my eye just twitched involuntarily).

These memories run thick in my mind, never fading, only turning shades of blue.

What was always black and white was turning shades of grey".

And now that August is finally here, those green globes are turning shades of red, orange and yellow and slowly sweetening.