Example sentences for: shadowy

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

  • Maureen Dowd's review in the New York Times Book Review is largely a laundry list of the differences between Clinton and her admitted hero: "[Roosevelt] did not engage in the shadowy manipulation practiced by other opinionated First Ladies.

  • 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 Haarlem, he painted shadowy lowlife scenes of soldiers and barmaids carousing in vaguely rendered brothels and dives.

  • 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.


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