How to Use gradation in a Sentence

gradation

noun

• Here are the gradations of those gauge boards as the water reached up.
  — John Kinsella, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Choi’s style of dragons is simple, cute and are inked with a gradation style in all black.
  — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• And there’s a gradation between, because there are people who show up once and then might not show up for the rest of the year.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Weeds are popping up, the scrub in the middle distance has turned golden and the serene sky above is a gradation of pale blues.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• But my dudes: Women know there are gradations of abuse.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 10 Sep. 2018
• But even within her sport, there are gradations of crazy.
  — David Wharton, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• In the perverse gradations of the it’s-bad-but-could-be-worse world of spinal injuries, Jaglal is actually a bit on the lucky side.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 9 Dec. 2017
• And what’s with the orangey red gradations of color on bumper stickers and lapel buttons?
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• From there, you’re taken to the in-between states, with varieties of gradation.
  — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• Float simple syrup and dark rum on top for color gradation.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 9 Dec. 2022
• Some people think the Hall is too watered down already, and clearly there are Hall of Fame gradations.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2020
• There are layers and nuance and gradations that are as rich and complex and varied as a color wheel.
  — Nicole Blades, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2017
• It is finally ground into granules the size and gradation of fine sand.
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Over the years, the scale has stretched to 10, in order to accommodate more gradations of sensation.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 9 May 2016
• So did his close observance of dynamic gradations called for in the score.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• There are gradations among the conservatives on the court, just as there are with the liberal justices.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2019
• The ascending gradation among these is such that the last mentioned are judged to be more serious that the preceding.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 7 Mar. 2013
• Dating takes on many gradations, the North Philly resident explained, taking some time to think and sort.
  — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The Half of It, streaming on Netflix, a prickly-tender film about teenage friendship, first love and all the blurry gradations in between.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Apr. 2020
• The gradation of color in a rainbow is continuous — there are no stripes.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2019
• This scale is designed to measure in gradations of 0.2 ounces, and has non-slip rubber feet to minimize movement.
  — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2020
• But Mitchell’s method yields stronger gestures, blacker blacks and subtle gradations of brownish grays.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• The Best Seats The historic seating color scheme, from the yellow-gold of the field boxes to the sky-blue top level, is designed to suggest the gradation of colors as the setting sun reflects o the ocean.
  — Matt Jaffe, Los Angeles Magazine, 7 Mar. 2018
• Castes tried to position themselves as higher in the gradation every ten years.
  — Jaithirth Rao, Quartz India, 4 Nov. 2019
• To my eyes, most of the acrobats’ repetitions of the same swings and flips looked identical, but Raman could see every gradation of weight, force, and grip.
  — Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2022
• Leaves transition from shades of green to a breathtaking gradation of red, orange and yellow.
  — Tokyo Halfie, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2023
• The good news is that there are gradations of certainty in fingerprinting — not all devices and browsers are equally easy to detect.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2019
• Imagine something that looks like a spreadsheet but instead of numbers it’s filled with colors of varying hues and gradations.
  — Monique Brouillette, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2018
• As Matt Damon has discovered, there can be no gradations, at least publicly, in backing #MeToo.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Give me Mahler with no end of personal touches, all sorts of tempo and dynamic gradations.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 3 June 2017

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024