shadow
Example Sentences
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Most of the villagers and farmers who live in the shadow of the militants are Muslims, not Christians.
From BBC
Legal scholars often have used the term “shadow docket,” because these cases don’t typically get oral arguments or other measures of transparency that distinguish the court’s regular docket.
And he came of age in the long shadow of modern art’s towering and, he felt, likely terminal -isms.
Still, candlelight casts a genuine spell with its yellow light and deepened shadows.
Dark dust clouds thread through the area as well, blocking light from stars behind them and creating dramatic shadows.
From Science Daily
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