shade off

To give it the old look he very often shaded off the varnish only at the base of the back plate.

But when a stranger comes into town it begins to shade off into another pattern.

I take me shades off every now and again and have a look at the world and see some nice things.

There came a high-pitched hum that quickly shaded off into ultrasonics.

New relationsips were shading off the working class into a myriad of divergent groups.

A vignette is an illustration without border or frame, the picture shading off into the surrounding paper.

Wherever the discussion began it promptly shaded off toward the color-line and insult.

This constitutes a huge deterrent to investment: all business activity is forced to shade off into illegality.

Can be shaded off with a stump.

For this reason the philosophical enterprise of the Abhidhamma shades off into a phenomenological psychology.

Dark face color is to shade off from the eyes to the jaws and blend with the chest and flanks.

The sky was high and cloudless, turquoise-blue, shading off into milkiness on the far horizons.

Brian's voice shades off into a whisper as he recounts his ordeal, particularly the local newspaper articles that referred to the deceit charges.

Tortoiseshell - An even shade of orange top colour to carry well down and shading off to a lighter colour to the skin.

A huge apple, tinted with gold and crimson and pale yellow shading off to pink.

He would avoid Chinatown and the other numerous foreign quarters where he would be too conspicuous, so those were shaded off.

A vast studio on the downward slope of a hill where the chic sixteenth arrondissement shades off towards Neuilly.

The woods are mostly low and gnarly, not much underbrush, red and yellow leaves partly shading off a cloudless sky.

Here the fixed idea shades off into religion generally; it becomes part of the other-worldly orientation of the revealed religions of the world.

There had been no shading off, no gradations; he had come straight from a great seat of civilization to the heart of the wilderness.

The hindwing underside is reddish anteriorly, with the base and anal areas yellow gradually shading off on the disc.

It stops short before the fold and is posteriorly attenuated and gradually shades off into the paler ground-colour.

It looked wild and lonely and beautiful, blazing with heather, and shading off into a purple-blue in the distance. '

He described the large moth's colors "of amazing distinction, black, grey, cloudy white tinged with carmine or vaguely shading off into olive green."