So their idealism was diluted with danger until it became as somber, sober and slaty-gray as the average existence, and fades as well as shrinks in the wash.
So youth with its love-note dies; And beauty fades in the air, To make the master-symphony immortal, And find new life and deeper wonder there.
But Nemi's woods are still green, and as the sunset fades above them in the west, there comes to us, borne on the swell of the wind, the sound of the church bells of Aricia ringing the Angelus.
Even as the colour of things blurs and fades when our eyes are dim with tears, so the hardest people do not appear so to the anxious heart of a woman.
When once the recriminations begin, every old cause of difference is dragged in to support one or other side; and the vision of a lasting union between the two greatest English-speaking peoples fades from sight and even from imagination.
It is only as womanfades that we realize the versatility, the inexhaustible resources, of woman.
Usually the change of hue seems essentially one of tone; the blue-green fades out, getting less and less pronounced, until in extreme cases only ochre is left behind.
All but the kernel, as it were, fades out, and even this may disappear from sight.
Of a dull opaque hue along its border, its contour is not sharp but fades off in a fleecy fringe without hard and fast line of demarcation.
The exception consists in the observation of what are called projections; irregularities visible when the disk is gibbous upon that edge of the planet where the light fades off.
From the back of the head a conspicuous baud of curly, dark-brown hair extends back like a mane along the neck and to the top of the hump, beyond which it soon fades out.
From the back of the head another streak of dark hair extends backward along the top of the neck, over the hump, and down to the lumbar region, where it fades out entirely.
For your spirit, too, stands distinct and perfect before me, not as an apparition which appears and fades away again, but as one of the forms that endure forever.
The glory that was Greece' fades out of the world and leaves it grey and dull, and there was worse than this; there was also decay and degeneracy and corruption.
Then the fog closed in, and, as a picture on a lantern-slide fades and disappears, she vanished and was gone!
Her scarlet dress left her warm arms bare and did not trespass on the slender throat; she had all the charm of intrinsic femininity which comes to fruit so early in the climate of Mozambique and fades so soon.
Withers grass, fades flower, When the breath of Jehovah blows on it.
Withers grass, fades flower, But the word of our God endureth for ever.
FROM gold to gray Our mild sweet day Of Indian Summer fades too soon; But tenderly Above the sea Hangs, white and calm, the hunter's moon.
Slow fadesthe vision of the sky, The golden water pales, And over all the valley-land A gray-winged vapor sails.
You never smile: your voice is low, and you utter your words as if you were afraid of the slight sound they would produce: the expression of awful and intense sorrow never for a moment fades from your countenance.
As fades the iris after rain In April's tearful weather, The vision vanished as the strain And daylight died together.
In vain their care, so gentle, Fades earth and all its scenes; The man of Salamanca Lies dead at New Orleans.
Beauty, as the rose of Summer, For a season looketh gay; Ere a while it fades and falleth; So doth beauty pass away.
From this might many a maiden fair A lesson good receive:-- That gay appearancefades away, And tends but to deceive.
The picture fades out; but it fades out unevenly; its various features are correlated with associative tendencies of varying strength.
In course of time, if the situation is repeated, the feeling of anxiety fades away, and the experience becomes indifferent.
Those flowers wither and decay and shed their beauty: but here is one eternal spring; this meadow fades not, its flowers are everlasting; for no hand is put forth to pluck away their sweetness, only the eye feeds thereon.
Just take a careful look at her temples some day; that is the only place where her own hair shows; all the rest is a thick wig; but at the temples, when the dye fades a little, you can easily detect the grey.
The roses of youth are no longer red, Bitter life’s wine is, bitter its bread, The lips of the poets are stopped with clay, And beauty fades into dull decay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
