How to Use shadowy in a Sentence

shadowy

adjective

• He had only a shadowy idea of what they wanted him to do.
• She was pursued by a shadowy figure.
• The streets felt like a shadowy set.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
• And that shadowy figure, which those on the night watch catch glimpses of.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• But soon enough, Liz gets left alone and sees a shadowy thing over there.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
• My vision is fuzzy and there are shadowy faces leaning over me.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• Trailing behind it was the shadowy form of a wolf.
  — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
• Dusty lights emit a dim, shadowy glow instead of a bright, inviting one.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
• This quiz will test your knowledge of the strange, shadowy realm of dark matter.
  — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
• Or he was trapped in a dark corner as a shadowy menace walked toward him.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• Much of the time, what each uncovers is the shadowy crooks and swells of the other.
  — Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• There are plenty of things in life that are worse than shadowy under-eye circles.
  — Erin Jahns, The Seattle Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• Polgar keeps the action steady and creates some film noir tableaux on the shadowy set.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
• But even the most harmless videos were skewed as suspicious proof of shadowy fraud.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
• Ava, meanwhile, is haunted by a shadowy figure at her art show.
  — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026
• All of our costumes were supposed to be stiff, to embody this dark, shadowy world.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 May 2026
• The result is a piece that shows just how fraught, shadowy, and dangerous that work can be.
  — Austin Elias-De Jesus, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• These two plots, while separate, are overseen by the same shadowy forces.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Beyond the light of the barns, in the shadowy corn stalks, spooks wait in the dark for wandering souls.
  — Courant Community, 18 Sep. 2017
• The room is shadowy but lively, with the sense that there are things going on in every speck of the frame.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
• And it was all wrapped up in sleek, shadowy visuals that made even the season's weak spots look like art.
  — EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
• But what about the power of uncertainty and the dark and shadowy sides of all of us?
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2026
• Rahal emerges from his desk, tall, with a shadowy scruff, tousled brown locks, and piercing blue eyes.
  — Sophia Herring, Vanity Fair, 28 Jan. 2026
• But the textures also start to get too uniformly shadowy, the beats too stiff.
  — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
• The country's shadowy spy agencies have found ways over the decades to off their enemies.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2020
• Instead, a shadowy figure moved in her room, which turned out to be an intruder.
  — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 11 May 2026
• Could that shadowy figure at the prow be someone from Edward’s tale?
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
• The resulting images emerge shadowy and noir-ish.
  — Sammy Loren, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
• Here, six of them, from top sellers to shadowy collectors, weigh in on the current boom.
  — Matthew Schneier, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
• As the case deepens, Bosch finds that there are powerful, shadowy forces at work.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 25 June 2021