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
All this after Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to field under a leaden sky.
From BBC • May 22, 2025
Why not spend it making a cozy home, tending a little garden, shutting out the leaden horrors outside?
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2024
I was glad to see the sun, for in superstitious fashion I looked upon rain as an omen of ill-will, and the leaden skies of London had made me silent.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Vocabulary lists containing leaden
Othello
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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