How to Use shadow in a Sentence

shadow

1 of 2 noun
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  • The tree cast a long shadow across the lawn.
  • Part of the valley was in shadow.
  • You can see your own shadow on a sunny day.
  • He saw something moving in the shadows.
  • I sensed a shadow of disappointment in his expression.
  • The work in the shadows LeDee has done on his shot is clear, across the board.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • As the day passed, the chimp moved with the shadow, trying to escape the heat.
    — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
  • For a minute, we, too, are trapped in this life lived apart—in the shadows, out of sight.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Once the stuff of whispers and sideways glances, plastic surgery has come out of the shadows.
    — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 6 Dec. 2023
  • But that gave me license to still live in the shadows and to be secretive.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The moon crosses in front of the sun during the eclipse, casting a shadow on Earth's surface that blocks out the light from the sun.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Then, the valet appeared out of the shadows like Batman creeping up on us.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The change in lighting and shadows, NASA said, can create projections of the eclipse on the ground.
    — The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024
  • For Greater Cincinnati, the eclipse will begin at 1:52 p.m. as the moon slowly casts its shadow across the sun.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Color outside of the lines in metallic shadow from your lids to your brows.
    — Annie Blay, Allure, 9 Nov. 2023
  • To the south, the old manufacturing city of Fort Smith has lived in that shadow.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
  • But the shadows and cracks had always lurked beyond the rolling cameras.
    — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • The result is a lunar eclipse, also called a blood moon for the reddish shadow the Earth casts on the moon.
    — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 31 July 2023
  • While there is still warmth in the direct daytime sunlight of fall, the chill of winter is now lurking in the shadows.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • That focuses the moon's shadow on an area of land much smaller than the moon itself.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2024
  • So does the sun, which works with the trees to cast shadows on the National Monument to Freedom, in the final section of the park.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The severity of the allegations cast a shadow over the artist — and over the awards show that recognized him.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Players used to commanding the spotlight must learn to exist in the shadows.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
  • The romance between Rustin and the preacher exists in the shadows — under the dim lights of a nearby bar or behind the blinds in Rustin’s home.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Despite fan fears, the show found new creative legs post-Gibbs, but Harmon still casts a long shadow.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Those who hadn’t lost their phones turned on lights, and the beams flickered through bed frames, casting shadows on the cavernous ceiling.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
  • One day, Mehran decides to catch someone’s shadow alone.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Outside, the winter sunlight cast shadows on the school’s weathered brick walls.
    — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The long shadow cast by the disaster means that, for the water release plan, the stakes—at least in terms of public trust—could not be higher.
    — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 18 July 2023
  • Israel’s fourth front is a shadow war with Iran playing out in Syria.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
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shadow

2 of 2 verb
  • She spent the night shadowing other waiters at the restaurant.
  • Police shadowed the suspect for several days.
  • And for the past year or so it was always shadowed with the impasse over kids.
    — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Ask to shadow a team member or two in that area for a project or even a day.
    — Courtney Rottman, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • The sky is a bright blue, with only a few clouds to shadow the New York City skyline.
    — Angelina Torre, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Warhol even copied the light and shadow on Prince’s lips, which owe their pattern to the gloss that Goldsmith asked Prince to apply.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2022
  • For two years, Isaacson shadowed the Tesla and SpaceX founder’s day-to-day life.
    — Shannon Carlin, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Sculpt with light and shadow, build (and break) circuits, and compose music from junk.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2022
  • In the hot summer days of the 1930s, Jimmie and I were turned loose on our own for most of the day and enjoyed shadowing along as farmhands worked near our home.
    — Helen Shriver Riley, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023
  • After all, the guobao, or Chinese secret police, had shadowed him for the better part of a decade.
    — Han Zhang, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Leiweke also said Lynch would shadow him to learn more of the hockey business.
    — oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2022
  • To achieve that, Tinsley hollowed out Cage’s eyes and gave his lips shadowing.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Amid the city’s struggles, there has been progress — but even that has been shadowed by its reputation.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • On the second day, Teacher Zhang found two students who spoke some English, and each child shadowed a twin.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • This is a film that moves a lot in dualities, between light and shadow, the upper class and the lower class, and which somehow presents the two sides of the same coin.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Sep. 2022
  • These abstract forms add a new dimension to the play of light and shadow that is essential to Irwin’s work.
    — Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2022
  • To prepare for the project, Williams shadowed artist Cynthia Lahti, whose ceramic figures are featured in the film.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Another trainer who was shadowing Payne kept the time on an iPad.
    — Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • Instead, the ball slipped through the wide receiver's hands and into the grasp of Martin, who was closely shadowing.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But get your hands wet, get into some program, or shadow some dentists.
    — Yolanda Baruch, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Reach for a softer black kohl pencil rather than a skinny black liner and use your finger or shadow brush to blend it out.
    — Lindy Segal, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Here’s a timeline of the arrests (and near-arrests) that have shadowed the 34-year-old’s athletic career.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
  • Parts of Ohio and other states will be temporarily shadowed in darkness due to the 2024 solar eclipse.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Her voice rises and falls, as the guitar swells like an ocean around her; the song has enough filigree and shadow to feel like a This Mortal Coil outtake.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2023
  • Rush knows firsthand how trauma can shadow someone's life -- and the hole suicide can leave behind.
    — Sarah Beth Guevara, ABC News, 9 July 2023
  • With defenders shadowing her, Jensen made only one of 10 shots in the second half while adding three points on the way to finishing with a team-high 20.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Over the course of seven months, two teams that share a Brooklyn office let a reporter and photographer shadow them.
    — Andy Newman Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • But then Quique pointed in the same direction, and the distant citadel began to shine — first the pale naked flanks of the highest cliffs, and then, slowly, the regions shadowed with underbrush.
    — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Gartner reports that in large enterprises, 30% to 40% of IT spending goes to shadow IT.
    — Jim Brennan, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • There were fitness rooms tucked away, too, where the weekend’s yoga, stretching, and shadow boxing classes took place.
    — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 25 July 2022

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