leaden

Example Sentences

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Perhaps an exhibition could explore Jewish artists wrestling with their traditions, but here these objects land like leaden agitprop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

Sweeney is good, even when the leaden dialogue does her a disservice.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

Standing in for Stokes, Ollie Pope would have been desperate to win the toss under a leaden sky on a green pitch.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

Why not spend it making a cozy home, tending a little garden, shutting out the leaden horrors outside?

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2024

He wished them no particular harm—concentrating his indignation upon the leaden who had seduced their addled pates—but he knew that they would have to be allowed their fight.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White