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How to use faded in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Faded means that has lost some of its former vividness and colour. Example: “Wearing faded baggy offends against the club's rules of proper dress.”

Examples of faded by meaning

adjectiveThat has lost some of its former vividness and colour.

  • a faded tablecloth
  • The stop line had a faded appearance but remained visible.2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022

adjectiveThat has lost some of its former strength or vigour.

  • a faded rock star of the 1970s
  • Some clients adjust their instructions as faded memories come into focus.2023 August 19, Vivian Wang, “In China, Artists Create Miniature Homes From Memories”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York...

adjectiveHigh on drugs; stoned.

  • That guy knows how to get faded like a champ!" ¶ Thirty-year-old me thinks, "I'm concerned for the boy's health and the general sanitation of this festival.2015 June 10, Farley Katz, “Music Festivals in Your Thirties”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC...

More sentences with faded

  • Wearing faded baggy offends against the club's rules of proper dress.From the entry offend
  • Helen donned a pair of faded dungarees and grabbed her knapsack before rushing off to school.From the entry dungarees
  • I was angry at first, but my rage faded away over time.From the entry fade away
  • The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.From the entry fade
  • Sunbleached paints and plastics are often crazed and faded.From the entry crazed
  • After many washings, my favorite sweater is faded and pilly.From the entry pilly
  • Many Easterners went into so-called “inner emigration”, withdrawing from a system whose ideological impulse had long faded.2023 April 28, Frederick Studemann, “Katja Hoyer: we need to hear ‘the whole story’ about East Germany”, in Financial Times, London: The…. From the entry inner emigration
  • He next appeared in a faded Plymouth Fury, the first car he’d ever owned.2022, Jennifer Egan, The Candy House, Corsair, page 111. From the entry Plymouth
  • Instead, they were a faded color of the new sweatshirt that you also washed.2020, Lil Pop, Hampton 3. From the entry tidy whities
  • They entered his body and exited it, they faded up, they ebbed out.2010, China Miéville, chapter 39, in Kraken: An Anatomy, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 234. From the entry corona
  • Just before it faded, a coyotelike howl of approval sounded from a balcony.2009 September 14, Steve Smith, “A Lesson in Jamming for the Philharmonic”, in New York Times. From the entry coyotelike
  • But when the shock had faded, more hard-headed reaction set in.2001 October 4, Mary Beard, “11 September”, in London Review of Books, volume 23, number 19, →ISSN. From the entry have it coming
  • The echo of a song in its three syllables, an age-old lyric not yet faded from memory.1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 44, in Lost Girls. From the entry caroline
  • It was exactly the smoky, faded smuttiness he wanted to put behind him.1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 12, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 46. From the entry smoky
  • The walls were covered with faded green paper patterned with barely discernible viney flowers.1998, Janet Evanovich, Four to Score, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry viney
  • Everyday language itself is riddled with metaphors, albeit often rather faded or worn ones.1996, Michael Toolan, “Introduction”, in Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language (Post-Contemporary Interventions)…. From the entry metaphoricality
  • "Slowly the glow and bliss faded and that superenergy drained away.1989, Philip Kapleau, Zen: Merging of East and West, Anchor Books, →ISBN. From the entry superenergy
  • The old man wore the simplest cottons, faded from long use and countless washings.1987 October, Galen Rowell, “Baltistan: The 20th Century Comes to Shangri-la”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 526. From the entry cotton
  • She was wearing faded French orbital fatigues and new white sneakers.1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry fatigues
  • Faded and tatty, peeling, floorboards eaten and unpolished, its philoprogenitive glory was a memory only.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 20. From the entry mess
  • Often they are smudgey, or so pale and faded they cannot be read at night.1956 summer, “Criticism Is What You Make of It”, in Rewrite: The Magazine of Effective Writing, volume XVI, number 2, Lunenburg, Mass.…. From the entry smudgey
  • Pulques Finos, it said in faded blue letters on the oyster-white adobe wall: La Sepultura.1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 109. From the entry pulqueria
  • In a few minutes, as this hypertension and ruthlessness faded in her, it would be gone.1913, John Masters, The Lotus and the Wind, Michael Joseph Ltd., published 1916, page 101. From the entry hypertension
  • That thin, colorless protestantism of her fathers had faded into a nameless moralism.1904, Robert Herrick, chapter 17, in The Common Lot, New York: Macmillan, page 230. From the entry moralism
  • Scotland began well and then slowly faded.2026 June 14, Tom English, “Why Haiti v Scotland was antidote to the ills of world football”, in BBC Sport. From the entry fancied
  • Most commentators have been taken aback (but reassured) at how opposition has, if anything, grown rather than faded over time.2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3. From the entry take aback
  • Always, the relentless bass of hip-hop blasting in rooms of nautical-themed furnishings, faded driftwood, gingham upholstery, linen and chambray.2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry gingham
  • However, this fad quickly faded when people realized this technology (sad trombone: womp, womp) . . . well, it didn't work.2017, Joe Clement, Matt Miles, Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse Is Making Our Kids Dumber, page 227. From the entry womp womp
  • She was wearing the flimsiest blouse and faded jeans.2016, Mike Scantlebury, chapter 12, in Prince William (at Olympics 2012) (Amelia Hartliss Mysteries; 3), [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com…. From the entry flimsy
  • There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 19. From the entry fibro
  • The gruffness in Russell's voice faded in an instant.2015, Vivienne Savage, The Purr-fect Soldier, page 26. From the entry manscaper
  • Her wizened face beneath straggling gray hair gathered in a bun, held the kindest, but rheumiest of faded blue eyes.2014 January 20, Rebeccah Apling, chapter 5, in The Gutenberg Connection, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, Thomas Nelson & Zondervan…. From the entry rheumy
  • Ramidus was either an early intermediate hominid or a dead end that faded out without diverging into more species.2013, Martin Malloy, Evolution in a Nutshell, page 137. From the entry ramidus
  • Ghosts of these thoughts came to him but soon faded and, leaving no aftersigns, they caused no bother.2011, James Hoggard, The Mayor's Daughter. From the entry aftersign
  • Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer.2009 July 28, John Branch, “Going Way of Old Growth”, in New York Times. From the entry lumberjack

Meaning of faded

  1. adjective That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.
  2. adjective That has lost some of its former strength or vigour.
  3. adjective High on drugs; stoned.

Full definition of faded

Questions about faded in a sentence

How do you use faded in a sentence?
Faded is used as an adjective. For example: “Wearing faded baggy offends against the club's rules of proper dress.”
What is a short sentence with faded?
“a faded tablecloth”
What does faded mean?
Faded means that has lost some of its former vividness and colour.

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