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dark glasses
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Behind them in a doorway is a man wearing plain clothes and dark glasses.
▪ He is photographed one more time, wearing dark glasses.
▪ He is walking about Nice with dark glasses and bruises.
▪ He put on his dark glasses as he crossed the other carpark, the one reserved for major executives.
▪ I wore my dark glasses even for these few moments, as my blue eyes were always straining in the brilliant light.
▪ Meticulously she tied a scarf around her head and put on a pair of dark glasses.
▪ She had not removed her dark glasses.
▪ The dark glasses were the final straw as far as my schoolmates were concerned.
WordNet
dark glasses

n. spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun; "he was wearing a pair of mirrored shades" [syn: sunglasses, shades]

Usage examples of "dark glasses".

Antonietta shook her head, touching her dark glasses to make certain they wouldn't come off.

But the long hair was golden, and the eyes were hidden behind dark glasses.

Then he smiled suddenly, a smile that illuminated his pale face like quick flaring fire, and he pulled off the dark glasses again.

Antoinetta shook her head, touching her dark glasses to make certain they wouldn't come off.

Then Aldwych looked down, caught sight of him and recognized him despite the wide-brimmed hat and the dark glasses.

He wore a white sweater and black jeans, with dark glasses over his eyes, and there was no colour in him anywhere.

Even with dark glasses, the light hurt her eyes, kept them watering so that her vision was constantly blurred.

You will have to wear especially dark glasses and get used to the sun gradually.

Both guys tipped him five, but the one in the dark glasses is the gent.

There was an iron stove against one wall, with a clotheshorse in front of it, where some dingy shirts were steaming, and on a dressing table there was a shrine of plastic flowers, seashells, colored scent bottles, and other gaudy bits and pieces, all surrounding the picture of a jaunty skeleton with a top hat and dark glasses.

Even with the sun so much lower in the sky and clouds beginning to move across the horizon, sunlight still hurt her eyes despite the dark glasses.

Her dark glasses fell from her nose to drop to the forest floor below.

Eventually you will be able to watch the sunrise as long as you wear dark glasses.

She rolled a towel around a bottle of suntan lotion, slipped on a pair of dark glasses, and went down to the beach for a swim and a nice, long session under the early summer sun.

Her dark glasses were missing, and her eyes burned so that they wept continually.