Wondering how to use Leaden in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as dull or heavy.
Leaden meaning
- Made of lead.
- Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish.
- Dull; darkened with overcast.
Using Leaden
- The main meaning on this page is: Made of lead. | Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish. | Dull; darkened with overcast.
- Useful related words include: dull, heavy, plodding, metal.
- In the example corpus, leaden often appears in combinations such as: leaden sling-bullets, leaden and.
Context around Leaden
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Leaden
- In this selection, "leaden" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, handed, core, shaped, sling, skies and light stand out and add context to how "leaden" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include almond shaped leaden sling bullets and consistent results leaden sling bullets. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "leaden" sits close to words such as aaj, abn and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with leaden
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That dark place, it turns out, is for our leaden congressional class. (12 words)
Leaden sling-bullets were widely used in the Greek and Roman world. (12 words)
Trump’s attacks on DeSantis are heavy-handed, leaden and way-past unamusing. (13 words)
California may be the Golden State, but I’ve lived through the sudden spite of its leaden winters and know too well how scenic roads can unexpectedly become slippery routes straight into the ditch when nine months of dust meets sheets of water. (43 words)
But if and when the chip does make its debut, it'll snatch pole position as the more core-leaden processors available in the consumer market; chips with more cores are around but they're more for dull data centre use. (41 words)
Written and directed by Dan Fogelman (creator of TV’s “This Is Us”), started with a pointless homophobic joke and went down from there, wasting a wonderful cast on a leaden script laden with platitude and coincidence. (37 words)
Example sentences (17)
An AFP journalist saw the Salinas River overtopping its banks in many spots, at times covering farm fields for hundreds of yards, even as the rain continued under leaden skies.
But there is no one around, only a leaden light and the silence of snowfall.
Trump’s attacks on DeSantis are heavy-handed, leaden and way-past unamusing.
That dark place, it turns out, is for our leaden congressional class.
Written and directed by Dan Fogelman (creator of TV’s “This Is Us”), started with a pointless homophobic joke and went down from there, wasting a wonderful cast on a leaden script laden with platitude and coincidence.
Although it was obvious the animal's heart was leaden and he was totally overcome with emotional pain and hurt, there was no sign of injury or any illness.
But if and when the chip does make its debut, it'll snatch pole position as the more core-leaden processors available in the consumer market; chips with more cores are around but they're more for dull data centre use.
California may be the Golden State, but I’ve lived through the sudden spite of its leaden winters and know too well how scenic roads can unexpectedly become slippery routes straight into the ditch when nine months of dust meets sheets of water.
I had to write to a deadline when I was grieving and that was harsh, writing seemed inane and pointless and the thought of creating conversation or anything remotely meaningful was like a leaden weight.
Almond shaped leaden sling-bullets were typically about convert long and about convert wide, massing approximately convert.
Although possessing Scorsese's usual visual panache and stylistic bravura, many critics felt its enclosed studio-bound atmosphere left it leaden in comparison with his earlier work.
Bennett 2007, p. 225. In his memoir, he recalled that the war seemed to drag on "with leaden feet", and that he was relieved when it finally ended.
Here they were a noisy, unmelodic, heavy metal-leaden shit-rock band with the loud and noisy parts beyond doubt.
In accordance with this determination the leaden mortuary chest containing the remains of Harvey was repaired, and was, as far as possible, restored to its original state..
In addition, leaden sling-bullets are small and difficult to see in flight.
Leaden sling-bullets were widely used in the Greek and Roman world.
The ancients do not seem to have taken advantage of the manufacturing process to produce consistent results; leaden sling-bullets vary significantly.
Common combinations with leaden
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- leaden sling-bullets 4×
- leaden and 2×