Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "skakering" is 'n spesifieke skakering van 'n kleur, of 'n kleur of kleurskakering. Dit kan ook verwys na die kenmerk van 'n kleur waardeur dit van ander onderskei word en waargeneem word as rooi, groen, blou, geel, ens.
1. Something about the shape of her mouth, the violet hue of her deep blue eyes, stroked at his memory with elusive fingers.
2. Fogg and Aouda, installing themselves at a table, were abundantly served on diminutive plates by negroes of darkest hue.
3. What lay before me was a breathtaking vista of Astra twisting for miles all around, shining a brilliant tangerine hue in the waning evening.
4. All the blood had leaked out of his head, giving his battered face a blue hue.
5. Tufts of black hair on his massively broad hands added a touch of werewolf to the inky hue.
6. It was now very distinct, and appeared of a much darker hue than the waters of the ocean.
7. In the first few degrees of this its progress, its surface is very sensibly flattened, farther on depressed into a plane, and finally, becoming not a little concave, it terminates, at the Pole itself, in a circular centre, sharply defined, whose apparent diameter subtended at the balloon an angle of about sixty-five seconds, and whose dusky hue, varying in intensity, was, at all times, darker than any other spot upon the visible hemisphere, and occasionally deepened into the most absolute and impenetrable blackness.
8. Four large spikes shot out of his back spraying blood and yellowish spinal fluid everywhere his muscles bulged as they tore through his shirt, and his skin turned a dark bluish hue.
9. Drained of color, his skin was a waxy, yellowing hue.
10. The green of the Northern Lights streaked the clear sky, casting an emerald hue overhead.