Below you will find example sentences with "shadow cabinet". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Shadow Cabinet in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: shadow
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 31.1 words

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "shadow cabinet" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 31.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and a shadow cabinet of ordinary, and former shadow cabinet minister lisa, secretary, keir and minister stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with cabinet minister, cabinet members, cabinet office, shadow minister, shadow ridge and labour shadow, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with shadow cabinet

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

That's why one shadow Cabinet member says Keir Starmer's "overwhelming message in our meetings is: don't be complacent". (21 words)

Placing some major Johnson-era allies like Priti Patel in her shadow cabinet as shadow foreign secretary is a first step in this. (23 words)

The shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, has clashed with shadow cabinet colleagues over Labour’s stance on a second referendum, the Guardian understands. (23 words)

Some form of federal opposition nay-saying was always a fait accompli (even if Dutton and shadow minister Julian Leeser didn’t realise it until early this year), though the form it took, of binding shadow cabinet, was at the severe end of the spectrum. (45 words)

While 49 MPs have gone public with their support for a ceasefire, many more are believed to be unhappy – and four shadow cabinet ministers are reportedly on resignation watch as the leadership battles to shore up support for the position. (40 words)

During a tense moment in a Labour leadership debate, the shadow foreign secretary said she and Sir Keir Starmer had called for the shadow cabinet to be more involved in tackling the party's anti-Semitism problem. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

New Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has appointed Mel Stride as Shadow Chancellor, Priti Patel as Shadow Foreign Secretary, and leadership rival Robert Jenrick Shadow Justice Secretary, along with the rest of her Shadow Cabinet.

Slater is advising not one, but two shadow cabinet members — Peter Kyle, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, and Jo Stevens, the shadow welsh secretary.

Sir Keir, shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and former shadow cabinet minister Lisa Nandy were all at the GMB hustings in London.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer unveils his new-look shadow cabinet Sir Keir Starmer has announced the senior members of his new shadow cabinet after his landslide victory in the Labour leadership race.

Some form of federal opposition nay-saying was always a fait accompli (even if Dutton and shadow minister Julian Leeser didn’t realise it until early this year), though the form it took, of binding shadow cabinet, was at the severe end of the spectrum.

In a joint statement shadow Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden and shadow environment secretary Steve Reed said: 'The Conservatives have brushed over the risk of flooding for too long and communities are paying the price.

Placing some major Johnson-era allies like Priti Patel in her shadow cabinet as shadow foreign secretary is a first step in this.

During a tense moment in a Labour leadership debate, the shadow foreign secretary said she and Sir Keir Starmer had called for the shadow cabinet to be more involved in tackling the party's anti-Semitism problem.

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The shadow resources minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, who supports Labor adopting the same 2030 target at the Coalition, has told Guardian Australia he could quit the shadow cabinet if the 2030 target were too ambitious.

The shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, has clashed with shadow cabinet colleagues over Labour’s stance on a second referendum, the Guardian understands.

The Norwich South MP, who quit the shadow cabinet last year after opposing Labour’s Brexit stance, has been appointed shadow minister for the Treasury.

The ceremony which takes place at the Park Plaza, Westminster Bridge Hotel on February 28 will have over 1,200 guests, including Cabinet ministers and Shadow Cabinet members such as Tory minister Nadhim Zahawi.

But Shadow Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture Donald Cameron criticised the nationalist party over the refusal to take part.

In April last year, the Leader of the Opposition, Moses “Shyne” Barrow, formed a shadow cabinet whose members were to act as counterparts of government ministers and hold them accountable.

Labour MP Jon Trickett, who was shadow Cabinet Office minister under Mr Corbyn, said: “Being transparent about the sources of political donations is a necessary first step.

Meanwhile, the witches are in search of Dabney Hale, a renegade warlock seeking a dark means of gaining unlimited power, and a "Shadow Cabinet" of ordinary humans grows more and more suspicious.

Sir Keir told his new team that the party had made “real progress” but there was “a long, long way to go”, opening Tuesday’s shadow cabinet meeting by saying there could be “absolutely no complacency”.

That's why one shadow Cabinet member says Keir Starmer's "overwhelming message in our meetings is: don't be complacent".

They have been pointing to Michael Gove's attendance at a secret summit in which members of Sir Keir Starmer's Shadow Cabinet, Lord (Peter) Mandelson and business leaders discussed how to address 'the failings' of Brexit.

While 49 MPs have gone public with their support for a ceasefire, many more are believed to be unhappy – and four shadow cabinet ministers are reportedly on resignation watch as the leadership battles to shore up support for the position.

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