"shade" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The film opens with him being refused backstage access at a hip-hop performance, plainly because his skin is of the wrong shade.
- He characterized this as "what we sometimes consider to be the wrong shade," with a note of fatalism.
- It was the wrong shade of red, for one thing.
- Two of the six strands of yarn, which she had threaded through her needle, were the right color but the wrong shade.
- The sky was the wrong shade of blue.
- Others consider mistakes - buying the wrong shade of lipstick or eyeshadow, for instance - to be a minor problem.
- His eyes were the wrong shade of blue and the lids drooped too much at the outer corners.
- Remember, I told you that his eyes were the wrong shade of blue.
- He's quite deaf for a start; he never hears what colour paint the customers want and often they walk out with the wrong shade.
- It's a green country all right, but just ever so slightly the wrong shade of green, which makes all the difference.
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