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
Down the arched court into the open space he ran, himself an athlete, but mocked by the swiftness of the shadowlike form which he pursued.
From Havoc by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Noiselessly the troop of barefooted Arabs moved shadowlike through the lofty halls and corridors.
From The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
They looked at him with wan smiles and lusterless eyes, and hovered past shadowlike, leaving behind for him nothing but dust, nothing but a hardly cicatrized wound.
From The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
