shadow
Example Sentences
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Learning about this island in the Caribbean — with its outsized reputation and long shadow — is how I’ve come to understand him.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Downing Street's official position through these crazy days has been that Starmer would run, but as a shadow contest gets under way, it's hard to know if that will hold.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
The frictions also played out on the ground in Beijing as US and Chinese officials appeared to be having their own shadow superpower battle.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Kuscher recently attended a conference organized by Miami Homes for All in Overtown, in the shadow of swanky new towers downtown.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
I follow her as closely as if I was her shadow.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Vocabulary lists containing shadow
Black and Gray
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" and "Sonnet 43," Vocabulary from the poems
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"Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath
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