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
• This mani looks straight out of the deep end, with a wavy, tile-like pattern and a gradation of blues.
  — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 29 May 2026
• Details on when those gradations will take place can be found on the school’s website.
  — The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
• Choi’s style of dragons is simple, cute and are inked with a gradation style in all black.
  — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• But there is a gradation of injury even among those hurt badly enough to be sent to a trauma unit.
  — Paul Sisson, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
• Careers live or die on the fine gradations between those numbers.
  — Rachel Barr, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
• Flipping your hair over to one side can create a different gradation in length.
  — Omenaa Boakye, InStyle, 31 Dec. 2025
• It is finally ground into granules the size and gradation of fine sand.
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• And what’s with the orangey red gradations of color on bumper stickers and lapel buttons?
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• So did his close observance of dynamic gradations called for in the score.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Opt for warm tones on one hand and cool tones on the other, as pictured above, or go for a true-to-life rainbow gradation.
  — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 2 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• From there, you’re taken to the in-between states, with varieties of gradation.
  — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• This ombré mani embraces every shade of the green rainbow with a simple gradation of light to dark.
  — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 7 Mar. 2026
• Patinir’s painterly eye knows well the sinuous gradations that can be drawn from a hot monochrome.
  — Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
• The gradation of color in a rainbow is continuous — there are no stripes.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2019
• Castes tried to position themselves as higher in the gradation every ten years.
  — Jaithirth Rao, Quartz India, 4 Nov. 2019
• Our surroundings went from green to black in a line so stark as to be rarely found in nature, which prefers to operate in gradations.
  — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
• 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
• But Mitchell’s method yields stronger gestures, blacker blacks and subtle gradations of brownish grays.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• Each existed now as gradations of resistant texture in the soil.
  — Eric Bennett, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2016
• Leaves transition from shades of green to a breathtaking gradation of red, orange and yellow.
  — Tokyo Halfie, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Leeks are sturdy enough to survive winter frosts, sprouting with a gradation of green colors and a mellow flavor all their own.
  — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Give me Mahler with no end of personal touches, all sorts of tempo and dynamic gradations.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 3 June 2017
• 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
• There is a gradation to the light within the glass tube — brighter down the center, dimmer toward the edges — that is subtle but adds depth and dimension.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2024