shadowy
Example Sentences
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These days stars are more likely to reveal their own secrets on social media than have them revealed by a shadowy investigator.
From BBC
Information Minister Zhemu Soda said the Zimbabweans had been lured by shadowy agencies promising lucrative jobs abroad using "social media platforms as their primary hunting ground".
From BBC
We turned into a driveway beneath shadowy trees.
From Literature
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But he was already way ahead of us, and Marlene was by now no more than a shadowy shape moving through the trees, and then I lost sight of her altogether.
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A dim light had to be coming from·somewhere, because he made out a vast, shadowy cavern.
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