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• In the distance, I could just make out a shadowy figure.From the entry make out
• The governor's reputation was tarnished after an anonymous blogger dropped a truth nuke exposing her network of shadowy allies.From the entry truth nuke
• Ever worry about shadowy forces tapping your phone calls and listening in on your private conversations?2023 May 23, “Is E.T. Eavesdropping on Our Phone Calls?”, in Scientific American, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN…. From the entry tap
• Jinhua is in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, a zone known for its shadowy financial networks.2015 November 20, Erika Kinetz, Yu Bing, Fu Ting, “China breaks up $64 billion underground banking network”, in AP News, archived from the…. From the entry Jinhua
• Drivers report stopping at a shadowy area near a sugarcane plantation.2010, Uncle John's Creature Feature Bathroom Reader For Kids Only (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader), Ashland, Oregon: Bathroom Readers'…. From the entry T'ai-nan
• Shadowy masked dominatrixes in stiletto-heeled hip boots snap commands and whips with equal fury.2003, Lora Shaner, Madam: Inside a Nevada Brothel, page 296. From the entry dominatrix
• In Missouri Deathwatch, Newton brings forth another Black Ace, this time a shadowy man called, simply, Stone.1996, William Henry Young, A Study of Action-Adventure Fiction, page 186. From the entry black ace
• These ‘dry masses’ are one of the more shadowy elements of medieval devotion, ill-documented and little considered.1995, Robert N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215–c.1515, page 139. From the entry dry mass
• There was a wide damask covered divan in a shadowy corner, like a casting couch.1940, Raymond Chandler, chapter 8, in Farewell, My Lovely. From the entry casting couch
• Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat.1924, Mark Twain, Autobiography. From the entry wastebasket
• It may be slight, and not in kind but only in shadowy dissemblances of texture and hue.1916 February 7, “The Greatest Miracle”, in Hawera & Normanby Star, New Zealand, retrieved 12 Aug 2011, page 2. From the entry dissemblance
• Barefoot, bare-chested, radiant and personable against the shadowy woods, he called: "Hullo, Miss Honeychurch!1908, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, “Twelfth Chapter”, in A Room with a View, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, part II, page 204. From the entry personable
• Activist internet culture shrouded what used to be a shadowy intelligence tactic in a new, star-spangled cloak of crypto-libertarianism.2020, Thomas Rid, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare, unnumbered page. From the entry cryptolibertarianism
• I might also add that favour or foedom do not concern us, no matter the shadowy tendency of your encouragements.2018, Benjamin Swan, immaculate. From the entry foedom
• It depicted a shadowy figure, crouched and masked.2017, Carrie Ryan, John Parke Davis, Shadows of the Lost Sun. From the entry thiefy
• After almost one century of shadowy existence the topic of electromobility is more up to date than ever.2014, Holger Bodenmüller, Prospects of individual electromobility, page 6. From the entry electromobility
• Over the past five decades, American culture has descended ever further into a shadowy, suspicious world of conspiracy theorizing.2014, Barna William Donovan, Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious, McFarland, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry conspiracy theorize
• The people here are just as shadowy as the sky.2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area…. From the entry goth out
• He bounded out of bed, grabbed his gun, aimed at a shadowy figure climbing out of the pen and fired.2003, Herbert Lockwood, San Diego's Hysterical History, page 177. From the entry pignapper
• Adie watched in horror: shadowy lives playing against living shadows.2000, Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark: A Novel, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page unknown. From the entry pupaphobia
• SERVANT (Imitating the style of his master) The awful armgaunt knight who wields the Gorgon, shaking three shadowy plumes.1979, William Joseph Myles Starkie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes, page 195. From the entry armgaunt
• The barn was dim and shadowy in the dusk of the October evening — "very Hallowe'eny," as Max said.1913, Mormon Church, The Children's Friend. From the entry Hallowe'eny
• Wikipedia mounted a 24-hour protest starting at midnight by converting their English page to a shadowy black background and warning readers that "the U.S.2012 January 19, Reuters. From the entry wikipedia
• This is a shadowy world where the boys in Franz Ferdinand are each others' fetish objects, and former Libertines Carl Barat and Pete Doherty, lovers.2006 October 26, Kitty Empire, “Pop idols trade licks”, in The Observer. From the entry bandslash
• Whether we translate them as 'nightwandering wizards' or as 'itinerant diviners and magicians', they remain shadowy figures, working at the margins of society.1999, Valerie Flint, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome, London: University of London Press, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry nightwandering
• Wherever we look up, there suspended against an areola of humming fluorescent white, is a shadowy funnel of tiny flies, bobbing in the air.1995, Beloit Fiction Journal, volume 11, page 37. From the entry no-see-um
• Will thought of the shadowy miasmic forest they would all soon move into, a way of living that was an inversion of all their values.1965, Stephen Longstreet, War in the Golden Weather: A Novel, page 335. From the entry miasmic
• But her eyes are like water, all greeny and shadowy and deep looking—a tree near a pool, that’s what she’s like, a tall tree.1924, Radclyffe Hall, The Unlit Lamp, Chapter 5, Part 1. From the entry larch
• Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC. From the entry parapet
• To the right, on the crest of the first hill, stood the white-belfried brick church, surrounded by its calm graveyard, shadowy with the dogwoods that separated the family plots.1983, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Vigil, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Part 3, p. 101. From the entry belfried
• He realized the monster meant to attack Heorot after the blue hour, when black night has settled over all— when shadowy shapes come shrithing dark beneath the clouds.1973, James Edwin Miller, England in Literature, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry shrithe
• The lurid unearthly glow still hovered in the shadowy chamber, lighting ghostlily the dead face of Thugra Khotan, which seemed to grin mirthlessly and cavernously at them.1933, Robert Howard, Black Colossus. From the entry cavernously
• Zaprudered into surreal dimensions of purest speculation, ghost-narratives have emerged and taken on shadowy but determined lives of their own, but Cayce is familiar with them all, and steers clear.2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry Zapruder
• Though we are dark of cast, and labour in shadowy places, we are master metalwrights and produce tools and weapons that glitter and gleam as the outcome of our craft.2002, Stephen Bowkett, Thaw (The Wintering), London: Dolphin Paperbacks, Orion Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry metalwright
• That night, as Grimley Grange was sleeping the sleep of the just, two shadowy forms crept through the shrubbery by the library window with all the stealthiness of professional house-breakers.1915–1916, John Lea, “Sir Guy’s Atonement: A Christmas Term Story”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XXXVIII, part 3, London: “Boy’s Own…. From the entry sleep of the just

Meaning of shadowy

1. adjective In shadow; darkened by shadows.
2. adjective Dark, obscure.
3. adjective Vague, dim, unclear, faint.

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Questions about shadowy in a sentence

How do you use shadowy in a sentence?

Shadowy is used as an adjective. For example: “He sat in a shadowy corner.”

What is a short sentence with shadowy?

“He sat in a shadowy corner.”

What does shadowy mean?

Shadowy means in shadow; darkened by shadows.