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How to use leaden in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective, verb

Leaden means made of lead. Example: “The sky was dark and overcast, a leaden pall producing a deep gloom.”

Examples of leaden by meaning

adjectiveResembling the color of lead, metallic or dark gray; (of daylight) dim, overcast.

  • The sky was dark and overcast, a leaden pall producing a deep gloom.

More sentences with leaden

  • My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking.From the entry mile
  • The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.From the entry missile
  • I believe pop music is too important to be left to the leaden, dullardly and unambitious.2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury, published 2015, page 260. From the entry dullardly
  • “You have yet to say cripplesome or crookleg or leaden foot.2010, Karen Cushman, Alchemy and Meggy Swann. From the entry cripplesome
  • Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day.2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry eviscerate
  • There are situations, historical, personal, sociological, and political as well as psychological, in which whole peoples feel imprisoned in a leaden, unacoustic atmosphere.1990, Victor Howard Carpenter, Stations of the spirit, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry unacoustic
  • Such changes may be rung on night-thoughts; but what is any moment of leisure, ennui, or enforced waiting but the chance to bewing leaden time?1920, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 126, page 819. From the entry bewing
  • Now in the dimpled streamful ghyll, and now aloft Where leaden high rigg roads leap to a livid sky, Sour and solitary, royally will I.1919, The Cambridge Magazine - Volume 9, page 372. From the entry streamful
  • Woona had silently and swiftly backed away; and her ebon face, Ursula saw, had changed into leaden flabbiness with some horrible fear.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry flabbiness

Meaning of leaden

  1. adjective Made of lead.
  2. adjective Resembling the color of lead, metallic or dark gray; (of daylight) dim, overcast.
  3. adjective Resembling the density of lead, heavy.

Full definition of leaden

Questions about leaden in a sentence

How do you use leaden in a sentence?
Leaden is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “The sky was dark and overcast, a leaden pall producing a deep gloom.”
What is a short sentence with leaden?
“My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking.”
What does leaden mean?
Leaden means made of lead.

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