shadow
noun
a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
shadowlike
-
a word derived from
shadow.
Example Sentences
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Her characters are anonymous, shadowlike creatures who seem to take turns living first in feverish madness, then in tiresome mediocrity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everything had gone all right, I thought, until Estraven had appeared shadowlike at my side last night.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
And she felt Barry slip shadowlike to one side.
From The Night Horseman by Max Brand
The next morning soft- footed Rangar had moved shadowlike into his father's office, and presently his father summoned him to come in.
From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland
She visited the old Beguinage, with the shadowlike figures of the nuns in black and white flitting to and fro.
From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Sarah Tytler
