Example Sentences

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In the five years that followed, Polachek and Wimberly parted ways with Pfenning and released 2012’s Something, digging deeper into their 80s pop obsession with added shadowiness and gothic murder ballads.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2016

In the vast sanctuary of the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights on Thursday, with the lights dimmed to a sepulchral shadowiness, the music seemed as simmering and enveloping as a primordial ritual.

From New York Times • May 8, 2015

Amidst the dry silence and shadowiness that had come over the world, he even kept a voice and some solidity.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

There was just that shadowiness about them which you find in people whose lives are part of the social organism, so that they exist in it and by it only.

From Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

The lozenge-paned windows, with thick stone mullions, were much overgrown with ivy, throwing a cool green shadowiness into the room.

From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George