Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, same as
entrailed .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shadow .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective filled with shade
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Examples
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His attention was focused on Dante, his expression shadowed and brooding, a teenager’s intense and single-minded want despite the fact that he was actually a year or two older than Dante.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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His attention was focused on Dante, his expression shadowed and brooding, a teenager’s intense and single-minded want despite the fact that he was actually a year or two older than Dante.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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His attention was focused on Dante, his expression shadowed and brooding, a teenager’s intense and single-minded want despite the fact that he was actually a year or two older than Dante.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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His attention was focused on Dante, his expression shadowed and brooding, a teenager’s intense and single-minded want despite the fact that he was actually a year or two older than Dante.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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In that situation the instinct is to hide, rather than to sit down on the railway line, the threat of a soon-moving train shadowed by the menace of a chanting crowd with camera phones.
Big breasts are the new small breasts Eva Wiseman 2010
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The mean annual rainfall is about 3,000 millimeters (mm), but varies with elevation from ~1,750 mm at the base (1,430 mm at the north end) to ~3,300 mm on the peaks, also with aspect, ocean-facing slopes being wetter than north-facing rain shadowed slopes.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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The way he smiled in response, his expression shadowed in the dimmer corrider, did nothing for her equanimity.
The Ideal Bride Laurens, Stephanie 2004
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Gabriel saw her and started to stride in her direction, his expression shadowed by the thickening twilight.
THE VOW Linda Lael Miller 1998
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David beat her to it, knelt and handed it to her, his expression shadowed from her as he stared up at her in a curious seeking manner.
Journey Into Love Logan, Jessica 1982
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Or by his homestead, or in shadowed yards He lingers where his children used to play, Or through the market, on the well-worn stones He stalks until the dawn-stars burn away.
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