How do you use Shady in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like shadowy or shadowed, plus the exact meaning.
Shady meaning
- Abounding in shades.
- Causing shade.
- Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
Synonyms of Shady
Using Shady
- The main meaning on this page is: Abounding in shades. | Causing shade. | Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
- Useful related words include: fly-by-night, umbrageous, shadowy, shadowed.
- In the example corpus, shady often appears in combinations such as: the shady, shady side, of shady.
Context around Shady
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shady
- In this selection, "shady" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, looks, battles, perceptive, side, dealings and things stand out and add context to how "shady" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a shady company with and about his shady finances friday. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shady" sits close to words such as belle, boone and captains, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shady
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Allderdice at Shady Side Academy, 4:15 p.m. (9 words)
As CBD’s popularity has grown, so have the number shady actors surrounding it. (14 words)
At night, the area looks shady, having been taken over by drug addicts and pavement dwellers. (16 words)
Although, with everything seemingly made of wood, maybe it’s best not to bring fire-spreading weapons to the fights that are to be had at Shady Stilts, or, for those more interested in a fire-fuelled chaos battlefield, go for it. (42 words)
Even if this was a personal loan repayment, it’s still troubling that Joe Biden’s ability to be paid back by his brother depended on the success of his family’s shady financial dealings. (35 words)
A shady company with very little backstory takes over an abandoned building, and stocks it with all sorts of medical equipment and biological materials, genetically engineered mice, and a bunch of documentation in Chinese. (34 words)
But how long can they suppress curiosity and realism in the face of so many coincidences involving Hunter Biden’s shady dealings? (22 words)
Example sentences (20)
And I found out some shady things that she has done and some shady organizations that she has worked with," JoJo continued.
Allderdice at Shady Side Academy, 4:15 p.m.
Although, with everything seemingly made of wood, maybe it’s best not to bring fire-spreading weapons to the fights that are to be had at Shady Stilts, or, for those more interested in a fire-fuelled chaos battlefield, go for it.
A Phoenix secretary on the run (Janet Leigh) checks into a shady motel run by the mysterious Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his overbearing mother.
Archer’s testimony yielded no definitive proof that Joe Biden was directly involved in his son’s shady dealings.
As CBD’s popularity has grown, so have the number shady actors surrounding it.
A shady company with very little backstory takes over an abandoned building, and stocks it with all sorts of medical equipment and biological materials, genetically engineered mice, and a bunch of documentation in Chinese.
At night, the area looks shady, having been taken over by drug addicts and pavement dwellers.
But how long can they suppress curiosity and realism in the face of so many coincidences involving Hunter Biden’s shady dealings?
But more than that, modern iterations of Caulder depict him as a shady individual who was secretly responsible for his charges' misfortunes.
Deer Lakes’ Colton Bish battles Shady Side Academy’s Drew McKim for a header during their game on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, in Fox Chapel.
Diagnosed with terminal cancer, the desperate serial killer John Kramer travels to a shady clinic in Mexico in the hopes of lengthening his time on earth by any means necessary.
Due to her shady past as a hired assassin, Lopez chose to take on the identity of “Ronin” to prevent tarnishing the team’s reputation.
Entertaining and perceptive, Shady Hollow is fast-paced and witty, with characters that jump off the page and a hugely satisfying mystery to solve’.
Even if this was a personal loan repayment, it’s still troubling that Joe Biden’s ability to be paid back by his brother depended on the success of his family’s shady financial dealings.
Everything from the Kiev operation to the formation of an entire temporal army, and even a clandestine organization fronted by Martin Donovan's shady executive is on the end of The Protagonist's strings.
Hansel's mother arranges the operation with a shady doctor and the procedure goes badly wrong.
He may not stand out as much as the others, but that actually works in his favor since society's had enough of heroes with shady histories and overly aggressive personalities.
He thinks it’s pretty shady that his girlfriend just freely spent his money without stopping to consider his feelings first, and she’s currently ignoring the fact that it happened at all.
Hunter Biden was forced to answer questions about his shady finances Friday in Arkansas as part of his bitter paternity battle with baby mama Lunden Roberts.
Common combinations with shady
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the shady 32×
- shady side 18×
- of shady 11×
- and shady 8×
- in shady 8×
- shady business 8×
- his shady 7×
- for shady 7×
- with shady 6×
- some shady 5×