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  • adjective Resembling a shadow or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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shadow +‎ -like

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Examples

  • In the fog, Jeremy remained standing, watching until the car turned shadowlike and only the taillights were visible.

    The Taste of Coins from Treasure Troves 2010

  • The Grimtotem moved, shadowlike and stealthy, black blots of ink against the moon-silvered night.

    The Shattering Christie Golden 2010

  • The Grimtotem moved, shadowlike and stealthy, black blots of ink against the moon-silvered night.

    The Shattering Christie Golden 2010

  • Labor groups are hiding "behind shadowlike front groups to prop up their candidates of choice," said Ken Spain, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.

    Union helps non-profit groups pay for attack ads 2008

  • “If you satisfied only the first requirement of preventing light from reflecting off of the object, you would still see the dark shadowlike shape of the object, so you would know something was there,” Shalaev said.

    Another Step Towards an Invisibility Cloak | Impact Lab 2007

  • The shadowlike spirits abound and mysterious folk suggest deeper threads of foul play, although David has less of an active role in the matters than he does simply act as an audience surrogate.

    Vampyr (1932) 2007

  • The shadowlike spirits abound and mysterious folk suggest deeper threads of foul play, although David has less of an active role in the matters than he does simply act as an audience surrogate.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • It's blackish and translucent, but it doesn't have a shadowlike solid outline.

    Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

  • After a time another form came shadowlike through the side gate.

    Jennie Gerhardt 2004

  • The figures populating the works of Hamsun, whether centrally placed or moving shadowlike in the periphery, are first of all themselves — agressively, inevitably, unconsciously so,

    Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest 2003

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