How To Use Shadow In A Sentence

  • Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
  • Chess takes the place of all the other passions, and the people in his life, including his parents, become shadowy, meaningless figures.
  • Every jag, every bump on the wall revealed a zone of darkness that was worth to explore, but every time, in the shadows, there was just the sides of the cave, continuing.
  • Part 6 of the Shadow of the Bat (27: 00) takes another thoroughly extensive featurette that concentrates on dissecting the "toyetic" nature of DVD Talk
  • I put on black eyeliner, mascara, red eye shadow with black tints towards the edges of my eyes, and ruby colored lipstick.
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  • Rising up off a stone bench that stood in a shadowy area out of the torchlight was a dark, robed figure. Dragons of Winter Night
  • He stacked the books on pedestals, making three mysterious columns on one side of the shadowy gallery, two on the other.
  • The moon passing through the outer region of the Earth's shadow, known as the penumbra, will be visible from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia's west coast at Stars and Stripes
  • Then, when cashiered out of the navy after refusing to follow orders which offended his conscience, he is visited by the mysterious benefactor who has shadowed him his entire life, who invites him to join a highly exclusive gentlemen's club, Redking's. REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker
  • About two hours after De Forest made his report, Green came in and reported that according to orders he had "shadowed" De Forest and Mrs. Maroney when they drove into the city. The Expressman and the Detective
  • With each soft shadow and sharp crimp exquisitely rendered, the act of painting serves to overwhelm the subject.
  • There were shoals of grunt and goatfish sheltering in the shadow of our boat.
  • Without iridescent blue eye shadow, an effulgent outfit or a hair-sprayed coif, she looks normal.
  • The shadow of this early tragedy has affected her whole life.
  • As well as an eye shadow, you can also use them as a gel liner. The Sun
  • The story, though shadowy, is starting to form in my head, as are the protagonists and antagonists. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Is NaNo a NoNo?
  • Loosely based on an old Montreal myth about a phantom ship and a shadowy captain (according to the poorly translated English press release), the maze is made up of five connected game zones.
  • He is out there somewhere, lurking in the shadows of the underworld and, I do not doubt, burning for revenge. LION IN THE VALLEY
  • What we see in the process of fecundation is a foreshadowing of the future man and woman. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • They live their daily existence in the shadow of one of the busiest travel destinations in the world.
  • The letters were carved in a cramped scrawl, moonlight etching the crevices and staining the shadows silver.
  • She is wearing blue eye liner and blue eye shadow and blue lip gloss and she has her hair tied up high with a blue hairband and two blue barrettes holding her hair in place.
  • The watcher's eyes glim - mered in the darkness, well back in the shadows, bright and feral. Ilse Witch
  • As we drew closer to the system I cut the engines and let the Moonshadow coast the rest of the way in.
  • The White Shadow – A unique series that took a rather real look at urban life among predominately minority teen-agers. Hulu Awards: Johnny Jay’s Final Wrap Up and Best of Hulu
  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding.
  • You could always join the 9/11 conspiracy mill and churn out another book or website dedicated to the allegation that the “EVIL” George Bush, Dick Cheney – or THE shadowy “right wing caba” is behind the horror of 9/11. Think Progress » Bartlett On Cancelled Maliki Meeting: ‘It Was Going To Be More Of A Social Meeting Anyway’
  • None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares. John Halifax, Gentleman
  • As such, video game enemies in sibling-based stories are more likely to be doppelgängers, shadows or doubles of the player-characters.
  • There must be a man who shadow-managed this bombing.
  • After the accident he became a pathetic figure, a shadow of his former self.
  • Watching their hand-holding shadows, she was embarrassed at being dressed for church.
  • Yet even clouds cast shadows, and stars keep changeless patterns and turn circles around the earth, but the rainbow was nothing but a brilliant, beautiful, empty glow in a world made fresh by rain.
  • A spokesman for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party called the cabinet shuffle "a futile exercise which inspires none and in no way dispels the gloom shadowing" Mr. Singh's government, according to Press Trust of India. India Fires Environment Minister Who Held Up Projects
  • The balsam impatiens usually grows as a two- or three-stemmed plant to a height of 2 1/2 feet, with white to dark red flowers tucked into the leaf axils, where they tend to be overshadowed by leaves.
  • The 1968 campaign had been divisive as it was fought in the shadow of the Vietnam War.
  • She looked up at him in fear, he was tall and lanky and she felt small and miserable sitting in his shadow.
  • Off to the Charity Ball is a firm favourite, with its livid pastels against bright white, the skulking figures throwing dark, tactile shadows onto the projecting shelf below.
  • He pointed to where the hills began to grow into baby-mountains, a place already deep in shadow.
  • The map was a cartographer's bird's-eye view, but the icy mountains unfolded white and hazy and shadowed, outlines blurred and overlapping. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • But my poor blear eyes like a bat's, startled me at my shadow on the flagstones. Chapter 22
  • There was no possible shadow of doubt about this. Times, Sunday Times
  • So dark are the shadows that a man standing there could not be seen.
  • It was a cavern in the side of a mountain, overshadowed with palm trees, at such a distance from the cataract that nothing more was heard than a gentle uniform murmur, such as composes the mind to pensive meditation, especially when it was assisted by the wind whistling among the branches. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
  • It was Corrary who pointed, and drew their gaze to the dark shadow on the water.
  • I'm meeting with the guy from Solatube at the site on Saturday, so any specific advice (eg; using multiple smaller lights to avoid shadows rather than one big one, using specific kind of diffuser, etc, would be really helpful if you can think of any.) Skylight tubing
  • This proves without a shadow of doubt that we were right.
  • Also outstanding are the eye shadows, in an array of flattering colours that really stay put. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Shadow Cabinet felt the full force of his left jab yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Holy Roman Empire ever since the first event of Charles the Great's coronation, when it justified itself as a diplomatical expedient for unifying Western Christendom, had existed more or less as a shadow. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
  • And the title essay picks up this theme: "Let the dedicated activist never overshadow the dedicated servant of literature — the matchless storyteller. Books: Sontag's Last Stands
  • Private investigators have traditionally been perceived as shadowy and devious.
  • “His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow. Musicians of To-Day
  • ‘We will not wine and dine with murderers,’ said Biti, a 33-year-old lawyer who is the opposition's shadow foreign minister.
  • A partial eclipse of the moon occurs when it is partly in the shadow.
  • The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist monolith for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred.
  • The speech is an attempt to regain the initiative after criticism of his handling of a shadow cabinet reshuffle. Times, Sunday Times
  • The gentle woo-woo spirituality of New Age is attractive because it refuses the grinding realities of life spent in the shadow of Wall Street and Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
  • Ben Foden is a counterattacker under surveillance, and has responded to advice to keep to the shadows out there. Eddie Butler's verdict: five things England must improve
  • Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
  • I have not the slightest shadow of doubt about that.
  • The difference and similarity between shadow moire fringe and Newtonian circlet are discussed from basic principles.
  • The shadows warped and distorted as a humanoid shape detached itself.
  • Just as she darted into the shadows, her dark cloak billowing behind her, showing a flash of crimson, a loud ruckus came from the front door.
  • The colorful scenes tend to be counterbalanced by some dark and foreboding sets, and many shots feature subdued lighting that tends to strain shadow detail.
  • They've been shadowing us ever since that explosion in Boston!
  • The shadows seemed to meld together, and shape a human form - Damion!
  • There was no possible shadow of doubt about this. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude. Half a Rogue
  • One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
  • I sit on the ledge and watch the sun play with incandescent shadows of deep green, as red deer graze in the distance.
  • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is in the shadow of the elevated West Side Highway, but it's not at all defined by city life. Getting Away From It All
  • For me, therefore, Meursault is not a piece of social wreckage, but a poor and naked man enamored of a sun that leaves no shadows. Classics of Confusion
  • Within this framework, much of the First Testament has functioned in a typological or prefigurative manner, or as a shadow-like version of the truth God revealed in the gospel.
  • She seemed somehow insubstantial - a shadow of a woman.
  • The work has since been partially restored but it remains a shadow of its former self. The Sun
  • Republican: but really in this country Republicans are fighting with the shadow of an old hat and a cockhorse. Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6
  • A generation later, Empedocles and Anaxagoras hypothesized the cause of solar eclipses, namely the cloaking of the Sun in the shadow of the Moon. Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
  • Amanda, in an orange sunsuit, had tried of chasing moths and was studying the peculiar afternoon shadow projected across the countryside by Bow Wow Mountain. Another Roadside Attraction
  • He had seen nothing save roe deer and a few hares out feeding amid the early evening shadows.
  • In the shadows of the room, his voice came stern and harsh. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • If you do, and you are perhaps more familiar with The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril (also featuring Lovecraft), then the aforementioned is very much in the tradition of this book, except Shadows Bend does not suffer from the sometimes tedious diversions in the other book. Superhero Prose Fiction: Related - Shadows Bend
  • One theory is that ‘a male model was daubed with paint and wrapped in the sheet to create the shadowy figure of Christ.’
  • I then crosscut the shelf to the width of the shadowbox and attached the bat to the shelf using galvanized wire.
  • The light didn't quite reach the high ceiling where carved figures lurked in the shadows of a graceful groin vault.
  • It was not the porter who spoke now: it was some kind of official relic or shadow or mouchard left from the old custom-house, and suffered to hang on the railway-station as an ornament. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
  • Apply silver eyeshadow to the inner half of the lid and a darker shade, such as charcoal, to the outer half. The Sun
  • On the ground it was a world of shadows and sunny streaks, kept ever in interfluent motion by such a wind as John Skelton describes: Wilfrid Cumbermede
  • Why then does his plight overshadow the tender story of the prince?
  • To Helen and back: At the star-studded The Night Before bash Saturday, Daniels confabbed with acting legend Helen Mirren, who starred in his 2005 drama Shadowboxer, which he directed. That's a wrap for Lee Daniels as countdown to Oscars ends
  • In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
  • I hope, I yearn to see that it all comes from some great and perfect will, a will with qualities of which what we know as mercy, justice, and love are but faint shadows -- but that is hidden from me. The Altar Fire
  • The kyack was quite in the shadow now, yet she dared not attempt its theft until the three men were asleep. The Sky Line of Spruce
  • I groaned in pure bliss, feeling the countless muscles that cramped when I slept in the Shadow Hall start to relax.
  • Caliban hit him then, leaping out of the shadowed recesses under the next terrace up, long arms and longer legs wide and grasping, teeth glinting in earthlight. Ilium
  • In a stark contrast between old and new, a traditional street food vendor in Acapulco prepares his wares in the shadow of a modern advertising image. In a stark contrast between old and new, a traditional street food vendor in Acapulco prepares his wares in the shadow of a modern advertising image. © Gerry Soroka, 2009
  • Â As the Shadowpact head home, the last image we see is Nightmaster, riding his coal-black steed into battle with a dragon, Sword of Night held high, laughing … Â “Now THIS is the life!” Shadowpact #22 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
  • I felt scorches on my arms, and I saw shadowy fingers enclosed around my forearms.
  • Weak light filters in through stained glass and creates deep shadows among the pews and misericords.
  • Musical backing is kept low key with touches of strings, brass and brooding electronica, never overshadowing Jane's fragile but emotive vocals.
  • Venus' face is a blurred reflection in a mirror and in Mars (which depicts the unheroic body of a strong old man got up in drapes and a helmet) the face is in shadow.
  • In damp, dark woods there is a flower that glimmers in the shadows. Times, Sunday Times
  • We had reached the outer court by this, and were hurrying for the bridge that led to the pontlevis when we saw a tall man, his cuirass glittering like silver in the moonlight, step out of the shadow and signal to a trumpeter, who stood at his side. Orrain A Romance
  • Some migrants may prefer the anonymity of the shadow economy to the prospect of dealing with the authorities.
  • The boiler came on with a burp and a quiet roaring, startling the misshapen shadow behind the torch. THE LAST RAVEN
  • Her eyes, velvet-black in the shadow upcast by the lamp, opened slowly. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
  • The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow
  • Second year, architectural drawing 7 drawing and modeling of the human figure and modeling of ornaments 20 history of art 1 style 1 perspective and shadows 2 anatomy, xylography, architecture, sculpture, or chasing 10 The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany
  • The children were having fun, chasing each other's shadows.
  • He cast his gaze toward the window; the thick curtains shadowed it.
  • The silence of the night pictures itself before him in the form of an endless expanse of perfectly calm, dark water, which has overflowed everything and congealed; there is not a ripple on it, not a shadow of a motion, and neither is there anything within it, although it is bottomlessly deep. The Man Who Was Afraid
  • He stayed in the shadows while the scant dozen passengers disembarked from the wooden-hulled steam-powered passenger ferry Virginia V, just in from Seattle via the Colvos Passage. Excerpt: Spade & Archer by Joe Gores
  • During a substantial part of their lives, they existed either under the shadow of public rejection, or in the clandestinity of aesthetic infringement. 2666 WEEK: FRANCISCO GOLDMAN
  • Her father's illness had cast a shadow over the birth of her baby.
  • He stood in the shadows of a downtown Manhattan office building, shielded from the cold, driving rainstorm by the scaffold overhead and the leather trench coat covering his body.
  • This means there would be a shadow cast to the north and the directional orientation of the picture would come into play.
  • That the flesh or soft parts are not wholly permeable to the rays is well shown in the skiagraph -- i.e., a "shadow picture" -- of a foot. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
  • A big, majestic study for this sculpture, in pastel, charcoal and acrylic on brown paper, finds two shadowy birds alighting, and a ghostly doubled head, its mouth stretched painfully wide.
  • The bulb in the shell-shaped lamp on the wall flickered like a strobe light and painted irregular shadows on the walls.
  • Some outside the shadow cabinet resent being passed over and neglected.
  • She had stopped to listen and offer words of advice, but the other members of that clique had stepped out of the shadows, laughing and jeering.
  • There were even more candles in here than in the anteroom: the same golden flares and areas of shadow.
  • Now, she would gladly exchange unmitigated boredom for the quivering nerves that alerted her to every shadow. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
  • He frequently focuses on faces and uses the play of light and shadow to potent effect.
  • It should be clear by now that the ambiguity of form and complexity of content in Seven Pillars are both foreshadowed in its dedicatory poem.
  • Cabaret songs were not the only type of entertainment they were treated to; pantomimes, monologues, and even shadow plays augmented the presentations.
  • Her vocals are mousy yet pretty (think Suzanne Vega, Julie Doiron), never overshadowing the delicate ambiance created by simple layers of loops and noodling.
  • The most interesting parts occur when the moon plunges into Earth's full shadow, called the umbra, and of course during the period of totality. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • There were stars in the night besides those known to astronomers: the stellular fireflies gemmed the black shadows with a fluctuating brilliancy; they circled in and out of the porch, and touched the leaves above Clarsie's head with quivering points of light. In the Tennessee mountains,
  • She opened her eyes to see a man's tall, slender frame filling the door, masked by shadows.
  • Gaily bedight,/ A gallant knight/ In sunshine and in shadow, . . . Archive 2010-01-10
  • This shadow economy includes whole industries owned or controlled by organized crime, and rent-seeking and bribery schemes on the part of government officials.
  • Her bleached blonde hair and heavy blue eye-shadow looked false in the bright kitchen; her tight top and high hds made her look like a pretend person. Two women
  • No trace, only my cigarette smoke, hovering like a wraith, betrayed my presence by leaving the shadow of its scent as it passed through drab walls.
  • He has always lived in the shadow of his brother.
  • Glory is the shadow of virtue. 
  • So no supporting struts, cables or columns to overshadow the trees. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was the blindingly brilliant light in a performance of many shadows. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nevertheless, her performance was somewhat overshadowed by the increasingly exhibitionistic shape-throwing of Stephen McAllister, the in-house main-course chef.
  • When I did awake I noticed a shadowy figure standing over me.
  • As you blink, it will naturally spread without tugging at the shadow. The Sun
  • The work has since been partially restored but it remains a shadow of its former self. The Sun
  • She takes hold of my hand, and having roll'd up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss'd the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Fanny Hill, Part II (first letter)
  • Spending cuts also overshadow the rail industry. Times, Sunday Times
  • As one the three hanging soldiers hit the deck and released their harness while moving into a forward roll, and as one the tree shadows moved into positions on the guards patrol routes.
  • Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.
  • The thistles, knapweeds and willowherbs are truer purple, but the bluish nettle-leaved bellflowers and field scabious are also tinged with that mysterious shadow which has more to do with night than golden day. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
  • Anne ran down the clover slope like a deer, and disappeared in the firry shadows of the Haunted Wood. Anne of Green Gables
  • During a solar eclipse the Moon moves across the Sun, blocking its light and casting a shadow onto the Earth.
  • The colour of edition of set limit to makeup combined smooth shadow and idolum creation to give infinite daydream, let any the people long to be shined by her glamour place.
  • If you set your pelorus, so that it will exactly coincide with the course you are steaming as shown by the compass in your chart house and then get a bearing of the sun by noting where the shadow from the pelorus vane cuts the circumference, this bearing will be the bearing of the sun by compass. Lectures in Navigation
  • One of the ways in which this foreshadowing of Agnes's death is expressed in the poem is through the swan imagery so deeply embedded in the poem's figural texture.
  • There would be general reaving and a “dimensional crossrip” thing (like the Worldwound or Shadowlands) letting in loads of bizarre Asian monsters to fight. New Campaign: Reavers on the Seas of Fate « Geek Related
  • He may be a bit of a Republican: but really in this country Republicans are fighting with the shadow of an old hat and a cockhorse. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • It made me more aware of a shadowy corner of anxiety in my soul. Seminary Boy
  • Only St-Joseph and that paler shadow Crozes-Hermitage can sensibly be broached within their first five years.
  • Elaine gave him a slight smile but he could see the shadow of sadness in her eyes.
  • I don't know much about his kittenhood, but I do know he was fostered for awhile in a farm-like environment ie, outdoors where he shadowed people quite closely but had no other reported behavioral anomalies. Crazy Cat
  • Before her the shadows danced illusively; the film of brightness changed and shifted; then all glimmering and partial shade were swallowed up in a black chasm. Under the Rose
  • The poor outlook and rumours of price cuts to drive sales of its smartphones overshadowed an improved financial performance after savage cost-cutting over the past year. Times, Sunday Times
  • She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root.
  • I shrank back into the shadows of the alley and saw people passing by on the sidewalk.
  • `I was picturing some French Canadian with five o'clock shadow. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
  • And that may men prove, and shew there by a spear, that is pight into the earth, upon the hour of midday, when it is equinox, that sheweth no shadow on no side. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow
  • Circles ringed and shadowed them, but still they twinkled brightly.
  • As I sit in a shadowy corner, I observe a slow and gradual elongation of his mouth.
  • For extra hold pat translucent powder or matching powder shadow on top. The Sun
  • I want to see what shadows are cast by a Calder mobile dangling from an ear, or to hear what kind of percussive music it creates. Body Sculpture Crafted by Calder
  • Using wire and polyurethane, her works may take the form of a shadow box, such as ‘Permeance’, or as a figural sculpture, such as ‘Goodbye Goddess’.
  • Of course to do it really well there should be some foreshadowing, but if done really well the foreshadowing is there but not noticed on the first play through. Big Trouble For Dangerous High School Girls
  • Coming events cast their shadows before them. 
  • He's also partially sighted so can only make out shapes and shadows. The Sun
  • Or, as in the Brezhnev period, they were so emendated in a cretinized two-volume edition of Tkachev's works (in whose introduction the Soviet editors also criticized me and my book on Tkachev ” the first in English about him) as to be unrecognizable ” either as essential Tkachevism or as examples of proto-Bolshevism foreshadowing Lenin's ideology. Lenin & 'The Radiant Future'
  • No wonder he remained to be a stranger to everyone else for no one dared or risked taking a step into such a place filled with horrors and terrors that only the Shadow Assailant knew of.
  • In the deep shadow of the lych gate I cannoned off a hard body. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • This shadows and hollows the cheek for that slimline look. The Sun
  • The Oklahoma bombing of 1995, which killed more than 160 people, emerged out of a netherworld of shadowy right-wing militias that grew up during the Eighties and early Nineties.
  • That casts a slight shadow over the group's defensive qualities, but the interest bill is covered a comfortable 8 times and the group is happily returning capital to shareholders through share buy-backs.
  • One week the Beast can be the hero, the next he seems a pale shadow of the imposing presence he can - and should be.
  • Click on install. really a great article, thank you. what about a drop-shadow for the menu? btw, what is "custome"? please correct it. it is better to add the requirements in a specific section The Code Project Latest Articles
  • All shadows are real-time, and all entities respond to the real-time lighting.
  • And, as if the moment couldn't turn any more unfortunate, one of these shadow spikes struck the car's fuel tank, rupturing it and causing the yellow cab to explode into shrapnel and into flames.
  • To you I am a monster, a skulker in the shadows, a fiend to scare your children with. Books in the Mail (W/E 8/30/2008)
  • It was serious, serious, raw sectarianism—without a shadow of doubt.
  • Christ Church has an interesting connection with Lang Park and rugby league… and even though the stadium completely overshadows the historic church the goodwill between the two remains very strong.
  • Dr. Moreau’s on madness, which he read during these months of mental relaxation, drew from him an acknowledgment wherein he foreshadowed his intention of studying anatomy and myology. Balzac
  • Test team, but an exciting climax to the story ought not to overshadow some of the less satisfactory elements of the chapters that have preceded it. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was evening, dark shadows slowly stretching across the worn floorboards of the room.
  • The team's a shadow of its former self.
  • Mr Darling foreshadowed the move last night when he said that both national and international regulators needed additional powers to help to restore confidence in the system. Times, Sunday Times
  • The crater was still in shadow, but the floodlights mounted around its rim lit the interior brilliantly.
  • Yes, Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn is shlocky with its gore, but it could have been so much worse and I am very glad that they made a lot of it off screen and in shadow. Black & White Friday: Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn
  • Like Roth and Zweig, he revered the old Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire even in its most shadowy duplicities; it was the empire where memory reigned supreme. A Hungarian Novelist's Literature of Fidelity
  • Tho 'sav'd, alas I am but as a. shadow, my soul will never learn to joy in life. Iphigenia in Tauris, a tragedy
  • We were in the rags of beggary, prideless in the dust, and yet I was laughing heartily at some mumbled merry quip of the Lady Om when a shadow fell upon us. Chapter 15
  • She was a shadow of her former self. Times, Sunday Times
  • These convey not only shadow but also heat, his suns gaining in intensity from a surrounding ring of black.

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