Example Sentences

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And really, what’s to stop the em dash’s sudden shadiness from becoming an illuminating glow?

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025

The trial has spawned intense media coverage — including true-crime TV series and podcasts — about how a well-heeled legal scion entered a world of mysterious deaths and financial shadiness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

And Mozgala portrays John as someone who is slippery, coy and clever, with a shadiness beneath.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022

All of this shadiness brought up an important question for Oliver: is there any hope here?

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2019

Perhaps it would be a harmless sop to Clovis to have them with him there, in order that he might make up for the shadiness of his marital past by systematic parental indulgence.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis