adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
leaden/lowering literary (= with a lot of grey cloud )
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The leaden skies cleared and the sun came out.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sky
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He too was waving his arms, then lifting a leg each in turn and shaking his feet at the leaden sky .
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All these obelisks are dark and sinister, their hulking forms glowering over a carpet of white bones under leaden skies .
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A few thin snow flakes began to fall, drifting silently down out the leaden sky .
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This is a suitable metaphor after the rain pouring from leaden skies which greeted the All Blacks to training yesterday.
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Oblivious, the teacher hurried along the chalky balconies beneath the leaden sky .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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leaden skies
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a leaden speaking style