How do you use Shadows in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Shadows meaning
plural of shadow
Using Shadows
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of shadow
- In the example corpus, shadows often appears in combinations such as: the shadows, shadows of, shadows and.
Context around Shadows
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shadows
- In this selection, "shadows" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cast, episode, darkens, sutro, near and loom stand out and add context to how "shadows" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allegory the shadows are as and are what shadows we pursue. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shadows" sits close to words such as bacon, humidity and introduces, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shadows
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Are there any shadows that can block your rooftop solar panels at any given time? (15 words)
Shadows Sutro Tower casts a 3D fog shadow Shadows are cast through fog in three dimensions. (16 words)
As a YAP, she doesn’t do any patrolling on her own — she shadows senior patrollers. (16 words)
He received a warm ovation from the mostly Nationalist audience and as he walked off the platform, he said the words Edmund Burke used on the death of candidate Richard Coombe: "What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue". (39 words)
A lighthearted adaptation of the 1960s soap opera of the same name, "Dark Shadows" centers around Barnabas Collins (), who is cursed by a witch and subsequently turned into a vampire for rejecting her romantic advances in the 1770s. (38 words)
According to the allegory, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality, until one of them finds his way into the outside world where he sees the actual objects that produced the shadows. (37 words)
Are there any shadows that can block your rooftop solar panels at any given time? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
The earlier episode shadows that event in the same way our bodies cast shadows when they block sunlight, or our hands cast shadows when we use a light to make shadow puppets.
Studio mode fills in shadows with light, contour mode darkens shadows to add contrast, and stage mod blackens the background to emphasize your subject.
According to the allegory, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality, until one of them finds his way into the outside world where he sees the actual objects that produced the shadows.
He received a warm ovation from the mostly Nationalist audience and as he walked off the platform, he said the words Edmund Burke used on the death of candidate Richard Coombe: "What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue".
Shadows Sutro Tower casts a 3D fog shadow Shadows are cast through fog in three dimensions.
There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted who disappeared into those shadows.
The stuffed birds' shadows loom over Marion as she eats, and Norman's mother is seen in only shadows until the very end.
After briefly thanking the audience, she dipped back into the shadows, leaving the crowd itching for the band.
After learning who she was years later, the Shadows imprinted a new personality on Anna's body, as part of a scheme to recruit John Sheridan to their side.
A lighthearted adaptation of the 1960s soap opera of the same name, "Dark Shadows" centers around Barnabas Collins (), who is cursed by a witch and subsequently turned into a vampire for rejecting her romantic advances in the 1770s.
And just when things seem their bleakest, an ancient hero emerges from the shadows — although it remains to be seen whether he will actually make anything better, or just cause more problems.
And make no mistake, the egotist laps up it all up, even bullying the Guide (Kristen Schaal)What We Do in the Shadows serves him up a hilarious case of humble pie.
Angry Birds Mystery Island, a new animated series from ) and Titmouse, with Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows)), Dominic Monaghan (), and Nasim Pedrad (Saturday Night Live) among the ensemble cast.
An image of the sky on the Ultra will look nice and bright, while on the iPhone, there might be distracting shadows under clouds.
An overcast day at the West Virginia Wildlife Center in Upshur County offered no shadows to West Virginia's official groundhog.
Are there any shadows that can block your rooftop solar panels at any given time?
Arnold Cassola helps to bring out a fellow Maltese from the shadows of general forgetfulness: the ‘’ Antonio Cassar, who built a reputation in the 17th century in Scicli, Sicily.
As a YAP, she doesn’t do any patrolling on her own — she shadows senior patrollers.
As shown in Zack Giallongo’s Star Wars: Ewoks - Shadows of Endor, the Duloks and Ewoks were both oppressed by the Galactic Empire when the Imperial military first arrived on Endor.
As the Russian military reeled on the battlefield in Ukraine last autumn, a foul-mouthed, ex-convict with a personal connection to President Vladimir V. Putin stepped out of the shadows to help.
Common combinations with shadows
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the shadows 96×
- shadows of 28×
- shadows and 15×
- cast shadows 7×
- long shadows 7×
- creed shadows 7×
- shadows to 6×
- shadows are 6×
- of shadows 5×
- shadows for 5×