How to Use shadowy in a Sentence

shadowy

adjective

• He had only a shadowy idea of what they wanted him to do.
• She was pursued by a shadowy figure.
• And that shadowy figure, which those on the night watch catch glimpses of.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• Much of the time, what each uncovers is the shadowy crooks and swells of the other.
  — Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• In the corner of the room stands the black, shadowy figure from Jessie’s nightmares, The Dark Thing.
  — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2021
• Of course, the moment the man leaves, Karl starts fiddling with the light, causing one of the few sources of light in the shadowy room to hang askew.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• The group shot the song’s shadowy and smoky video in Pearl’s basement, which matches the tune’s dark and resilient tone.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2023
• The details of Lai Tek’s mission in Malaya are shadowy.
  — Richard Collett, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2022
• The mood is shadowy, the palette a turbulent chiaroscuro.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
• Featured in the image are the rims of Prokofiev, Kandinsky, Tolkien and Gordimer, as well as their shadowy depths.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
• The video game publisher confirmed the breach, which could be a boon to the shadowy world of cheat-makers.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
• Without more transparency—even in crude form—we're left to the whims of shadowy A.I. forces.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 7 July 2021
• The shadowy twin of the striving for success is an almost Greek sense of the capriciousness of fate.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
• My vision is fuzzy and there are shadowy faces leaning over me.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• Deep below the surface of the South China Sea, a glow-in-the-dark creature swam through shadowy waters.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• What about the stories that the people around David are violent and shadowy?
  — Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
• One of its 14 drawings depicts a strangely small door in the wall of a shadowy basement.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
• In the footage, a secret bookshelf door opens to reveal a shadowy room full of Batsuits.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
• And it was all wrapped up in sleek, shadowy visuals that made even the season's weak spots look like art.
  — EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
• The postcard had been sent out by a shadowy group called Iowa Citizens for Truth.
  — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
• In the more shadowy corners of the crowdsourcing industry, the use of child workers is overt.
  — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
• But even the most harmless videos were skewed as suspicious proof of shadowy fraud.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
• After a half-decade of lurking, the shadowy group was suddenly brought into the light of day.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
• Bathers rushed out of the water and stood on the shoreline, pointing, as a large, shadowy figure cut through the clear water.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
• But, sadly, in the real world, there is also a shadowy part of AI usage too.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• The chicken landed in a shadowy corner of the barn, next to an animal that seemed to be hiding.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• We're left with a final, shadowy shot of Driver, as a centaur, standing on the beach.
  — refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• Or he was trapped in a dark corner as a shadowy menace walked toward him.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• As with the shadowy Saudi program, satellite imagery showed Egypt invested in further developing a facility housing its Scuds.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
• Dugin apparently believes in this notion, but, on a practical level, the party, with minimal membership and no seats in parliament, may have been a front for a more shadowy political group led by Dugin: the International Eurasian Movement.
  — James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025