Example sentences for: shadowy

How can you use “shadowy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Renoir, Monet, and their associates in the Impressionist circle were beginning to find ways to leave behind the shadowy chiaroscuro of earlier European painting, which they associated with a rural world now lost to modern experience.

  • Here he goes into other shadowy corners of the biography--the 1931 suicide of Hitler's half-niece Geli Raubal; rumors about irregularities in Hitler's sexuality and physiognomy (what Hitler biographer Alan Bullock calls the "one-ball business"); the endlessly debatable question of when exactly Hitler made up his mind to launch the Final Solution; and, thorniest of all, the question of his sincerity, the degree to which he believed what he said and believed in what he did.

  • Like that story, this one comes replete with a cloak-and-dagger fantasy in which the truth-seeking journalist (in this case the author of the X-Files Encyclopedia ) faces danger from shadowy conspirators for attempting to expose the truth.

  • Having contribution limits but no spending limits creates all sorts of weird anomalies, above all the shadowy and often farcical distinction between "independent" and "coordinated" expenditure.

  • He is a creature of sunny day, not shadowy night.


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