LEADEN


Meaning of LEADEN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

leaden/lowering literary (= with a lot of grey cloud )

The leaden skies cleared and the sun came out.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

sky

He too was waving his arms, then lifting a leg each in turn and shaking his feet at the leaden sky .

All these obelisks are dark and sinister, their hulking forms glowering over a carpet of white bones under leaden skies .

A few thin snow flakes began to fall, drifting silently down out the leaden sky .

This is a suitable metaphor after the rain pouring from leaden skies which greeted the All Blacks to training yesterday.

Oblivious, the teacher hurried along the chalky balconies beneath the leaden sky .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

leaden skies

a leaden speaking style

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.