shadowing

Example Sentences

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Instead of shadowing wolves, ravens repeatedly returned to specific areas where kills were more common.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

In the early 1990s, David Dorsey spent a year shadowing executives selling copiers for then-booming Xerox.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

That includes shadowing Chinese coastguard ships and responding to suspicious vessels lingering near Taiwan's subsea telecoms cables.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

The third and most critical problem for the Phillies was that Betts had lingered close to second base, shadowing Castellanos.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

The chimney pots on the roofs...and on some, the shadowing looming of pigeon cotes...sometimes, faintly heard, the sleepy cooing of pigeons...the twin spires of the Church, remotely brooding over the dark tenements ….

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith