Sentence for shadow | Use shadow in a sentence

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  • In its shadow was a swan. (10)
  • The shadow of a clue for me. (10)
  • Avoid the shadow of hypocrisy. (10)
  • Her husband was a shadow there. (10)
  • There is not a shadow of wavering. (4)
  • In the shadow of it sat the fair singer. (10)
  • But she writhes under any shadow of a blot. (10)
  • A polite gendarme threw his shadow on the path. (2)
  • Her amazement was without a shadow of reserve. (10)
  • The idea reflected a shadow on his intelligence. (10)
  • Afterwards he got worse, and became quite my shadow. (4)
  • He stood still once more in the shadow of the lilacs. (8)
  • The shadow of the cypress was lessening on the lake. (10)
  • For the sake of a passing shadow, to give up substance? (8)
  • There in the shadow of a doorway the policeman was standing. (8)
  • The cab stopped; George stepped out of the shadow and got in. (8)
  • If for only that, she would have hung to him like his shadow. (10)
  • We would think so, and still the shadow is round our thoughts. (10)
  • Is there such a thing as the yearning of the shadow for its body? (12)
  • Suddenly, across the wan grass the shadow of the pine-trunk moved. (8)
  • The light was tender to her complexion where she sat in partial shadow. (10)
  • The shadow of the house stretched velvet and blunt over the rock-garden. (8)
  • The small glow of candle-light made her dark rich colouring orange in shadow. (10)
  • He found a comforting reassurance in asserting his command over his own shadow. (1)
  • Politically also we know that strength is the one reality: the rest is shadow. (10)
  • A cluster of sunshades on the bridge glowed for a moment and was lost in shadow. (8)
  • Compared with men, they have as much heart in them as the shadow beside the body. (10)
  • The open space was quite luminous in the middle of those three deep walls of shadow. (10)
  • Lady Judith is serene above it, but it frets at Richard when he is out of her shadow. (10)
  • He did not answer, as though in very truth he had been the shadow of a man lying there. (8)
  • Had he done ill or well for himself and for her when he named the shadow on her parents? (10)
  • She saw that it was he, and, calling out his name, ran back into the shadow of the trees. (8)
  • We stand upon isles, who stand: A Shadow before us, and back, A phantom the habited land. (10)
  • Dudley was optically affected by a round spot of the world swinging its shadow over Nesta. (10)
  • He was in the shadow of the house, so that it was impossible to discern much of his figure. (10)
  • And, as if she had been his shadow lengthened out to that far distance, she moved behind him. (8)
  • Doomed Benson following his burly shadow hove in sight on the white road while Adrian spoke. (10)
  • Had she kept her back to him, he might have rounded her like the shadow of a dial, undetected. (10)
  • What a light that was half shadow, and what shadows that were all light were over everything!… (14)
  • The streets were full of icy shadow, although the chimneys were smoking overhead in golden sunshine. (2)
  • His conscience suffered few, if any, twinges for letting this man rest under the shadow of the murder. (8)
  • Evan was looking at a figure, whose shadow was thrown towards the house from the margin of the stream. (10)
  • Before him in the sunlight a little shadow fled; behind him the reek of petrol seemed to darken the road. (8)
  • Or there is a lake in mid-forest, that curls part in shadow under the foot of morning: there we have her. (10)
  • The sail seemed to have had a prescience of the wind before it passed over the smooth water like a shadow. (9)
  • Gyp could never be self-confident for long; over her most victorious moments brooded the shadow of distrust. (8)
  • Lilies, swimming on the mere, In the castle shadow, Under draw their heads, and Fear Walks the misty meadow. (10)
  • The shadow about her secretes mystery, just as the forest breeds romance: and mystery is a measureless realm. (10)
  • What philosopher could have set down that face of sun and breeze and nymph in shadow as a point in a problem? (10)
  • It was as if his khaki had fallen off, and he had stepped out of his own shadow, a live and quivering creature. (8)
  • Like a shadow she passed across the grass, out of the garden gate, down the road under the black dripping trees. (8)
  • A shadow of his missed Idea on London Bridge seemed to cross him from the close flapping of a wing within reach. (10)
  • When once he had given his liking, he could not bear that any shadow of change should seem to have come upon him. (9)
  • Surely, I hurried to the tents and took no sleep, watching zealously by the tent of Ravaloke, crouched in its shadow. (10)
  • And he could find no sleep, for her shadow appeared to him constantly and yet did not find the courage to address him. (12)
  • So for hours rode Farina in a silver-fleeting glory; while the Monk as a shadow, galloped stern and silent beside him. (10)
  • Or will you forever pursue that shadow of liberty which still escapes from your hands, even when in the act of grasping it? (18)
  • But now the shadow of a great calamity fell on me, for my dear Heriot announced his intention of leaving the school next half. (10)
  • Sir Purcell moved from the shadow of the tree as noiselessly as he could, so that this enamoured couple might not be disturbed. (10)
  • In the shadow of the towering rock of Cape Diamond, the first thing to be done was to clear a site and erect cabins for shelter. (19)
  • Fore-sail and aft were at their gentle strain; her shadow rippled fragmentarily along to the silver rivulet and boat of her wake. (10)
  • Nothing but that would suffer itself to be suggested, though conjectures lying in shadow underneath pressed ominously on my mind. (10)
  • The windows stood wide open in the heat; the garden lay in thick, soft shadow, where the pitchy shapes of trees could be discerned. (8)
  • Placidly fading, and sinking and shading At last to that shadow, the latest desert; Wasting and waning, but still, still remaining. (10)
  • A shadow was over the house, and the inhabitants moved about their domestic occupations silent as things that feel the thunder-cloud. (10)
  • They were still too much in shadow, however, to reveal their nature and origin to an indolent attention, and again he resumed his reading. (1)
  • Victor thought, and he garrotted the unruly mind of a man really feeling devoutness in the presence of the shadow thrown by the dread Shade. (10)
  • As Vittoria came under the fretted shadow of the cathedral, she perceived her mother standing with Zotti at the house-door, though the night was far advanced. (10)
  • The folds of light and shadow everywhere were satin-rich; shadows perforce of blackness had light in them, and the light a sword-like sharpness over their edges. (10)

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