shades of

phrase

—used to say what or who one is reminded of when looking at or thinking about someone or something

a former actor who's now a politician—shades of Ronald Reagan

Examples of shades of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Guest rooms and suites are done up in moody shades of blue, and dining options include a sunny conservatory and a clubby dining room. — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

The Seahawks unveiled the second Super Bowl banner in team history before McCready’s strumming, which drew shades of another Seattle legend, Jimi Hendrix, and his rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock in 1969. — Andrew Destin, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Sweet, ripe tomatoes in vibrant shades of red-orange and egg-yolk yellow are nature’s evidence of long, hot, sunny days. — Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2026

The daughter, incidentally, is a tuberculosis patient in a Swiss sanatorium (shades of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, which had appeared to great acclaim only five years earlier). — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for shades of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove