shadowing

Example Sentences

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She was still shadowing a more senior member of staff when the choking incident occurred.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

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

Its leaves harvest sunlight to photosynthesize, so trees compete by shadowing their neighbors.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan