Example sentences for: shadowy

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

  • Hard-drinking locals down poncha (sugar-cane brandy, lemon juice, and honey) in shadowy bars, while grizzled old fishermen play cards or repair their boats, awaiting their next trip.

  • It is the catcher, low to the ground, with that shadowy zone around his groin, who must call the pitch.

  • German director Volker Schlöndorff ( The Tin Drum ) tries his hand at film noir, but most critics say he should stick to "adapting serious literary works" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). They complain that his film--about an ex-con (Woody Harrelson) who falls for the wife (Elisabeth Shue) of a dying millionaire--overdoes the shadowy lighting and complicated plot twists of the genre.

  • In its obituary of Tudjman, the Times of London said he had had a "shadowy relationship" with the United States.

  • In an interview with the Daily Telegraph of London Wednesday, Cresson (notorious in Britain for having stated while prime minister that a quarter of Englishmen are homosexuals) blamed her troubles on "a shadowy conspiracy of ultra-Rightists who leak lies to the newspapers" and on a new generation of European parliamentarians, who lack the old European idealism.


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