How to Use leaden in a Sentence

leaden

adjective

• Leaden clouds covered the sky, and a brisk wind whipped through the air.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 23 June 2017
• But then there are leaden images of black birds, living and dead.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• There are the leaden letters, day after day, the proof sheets, the still-wet ink.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
• The idea of cooking an actual meal was enough to make my limbs go leaden.
  — Kaci Neves, Bon Appétit, 7 June 2021
• Ever had to trudge through a thick and leaden version of biscuits and gravy?
  — Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• But many of us may wish for our 70-degree days without the leaden skies above.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 15 May 2022
• Time was leaden, then, swimming as if through oil, distorted and heavy.
  — Sara B. Franklin, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Crab Rangoon, at its worst leaden and porous, is light and crackly here.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
• And for those with a more leaden foot, a high-performance all-wheel-drive model will soon be available.
  — Brett Berk, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2022
• What saves the gimmick from tipping over into leaden pretension is a sense of play.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2022
• Perhaps that accounts for why a work that can be so dazzling onstage is so leaden transferred to the screen.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
• His character, Martin, has the leaden tread of a man stuck in a midlife crisis.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
• No leaden diagnoses of the human predicament belch on the smoky skyline.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• Though the batter is made with 100 percent whole wheat flour, the pancakes aren’t tough or leaden.
  — Jessica Battilana, SFChronicle.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• Behind them, echoing the shape of the ladder, there is the steeple of an old white church pointing up toward a leaden sky.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2019
• There are moments where the album’s tone skews leaden, where Shaw positions us right on the edge of despair.
  — Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026
• There’s a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, the leaden affair will lighten up with some lighthearted bloodshed, but no.
  — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2019
• There's a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, the leaden affair will lighten up with some lighthearted bloodshed, but no.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• Snow flurries are blowing at an angle, the sky is a leaden grey, and visibility is poor.
  — Vivian Song, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
• In the sun, the river, which had seemed leaden the day before, sparkled with personality like a living thing.
  — Longreads, 18 Sep. 2019
• Any dullness in the book arises from writing that is sometimes both as repetitive as typing and as leaden as type itself.
  — Peter Neville-Hadley, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• But the plot veered away from the novel in significant ways, the acting was leaden, and the film was critically panned.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2020
• When Ronaldo took possession, the 41-year-old striker looked leaden.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 18 June 2026
• As for Tepper, his own audition for the leaden police officer Samuels still hung in the air.
  — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• These choices add more implausibility to a script already leaden with it.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 15 Dec. 2025
• Hundreds of women who’d been born in the projects and poisoned with lead their whole lives passed metals in utero to their children, whose first breaths took in clouds of white leaden dust.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 21 May 2017
• His final line was fine, especially given the blowout nature of the victory, but his legs are clearly leaden at this point.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2026
• Odor threw to first base, a second ahead of the leaden-footed Pujols, and the Rangers had an inning-ending double play.
  — Pedro Moura, latimes.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• The narration is ham-fisted, the plot is nonsensical, and the dialogue is leaden and often cheesy.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 June 2020
• She, whose life would end in the last year of this leaden, sick, suffocating century, in a noose improvised with the rope of a gymnastics ring.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025