Example sentences for: shadowy

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Though their antecedents are still shadowy, they were much influenced by the Olmec.

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


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