shadowland
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shadowland
Example Sentences
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Part of the draw of Ms. Hamilton’s social media is trying to sort out where the stress falls in the shadowland between fact and fiction.
From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2022
It is in its exploration of Stoker’s shadowland that “Shadowplay” becomes most imaginative.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2020
The investigation has thrown into full relief this weird shadowland economy and inverted morality.
From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2017
Some, such as Steven Gerrard, the new captain, who scored both England goals against Hungary, survive, but at 35 Beckham has been consigned to a shadowland of thwarted promise.
From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2010
This was an underworld where squalor and vice went hand in hand through the beautiless streets, a melting-pot of the world's outcasts; this was the shadowland, which last night had swallowed up Nayland Smith.
From The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Rohmer, Sax
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