I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a shadow/ghost of your former self (= be much less confident, healthy, energetic etc than you used to be )
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The team’s a shadow of its former self.
eye shadow
five o'clock shadow
shadow boxing
shadow economy
the gathering darkness/dusk/shadows etc
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the evening’s gathering shadows
the shadow cabinet (= the most important members of the opposition party )
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He joined the shadow cabinet as transport spokesman.
without a shadow of a doubt (= without any doubt )
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I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I was going to win.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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You know the kind of thing, all black shadows and gloom.
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As the deep black shadow in Glen Keltney closed over them, they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue.
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Peering past the leaf-dappled reflections that had fooled her, Chesarynth saw only white rocks and black shadows .
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He sat, a black shadow .
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I watched him arrive and disappear into the black shadows .
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His face is unearthly - eyes glazed in concentration, cheekbones and jaw protruding floodlit from heavy black shadows .
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She was a black pool of shadow on the bed, a space of darkness.
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The black shadow of the Red Army Faction.
dark
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The Eyes Apply dark brown shadow over the socket and, as in day make-up, over one-third of the eye.
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The voice came from his right, and Miguel noticed there were two guys standing there in an even darker shadow .
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It was Corrary who pointed, and drew their gaze to the dark shadow on the water.
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One day she came to history class with dark shadows under her eyes.
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At first he couldn't see anyone, but suddenly, in the dark shadow of the Monument, he spotted Tina.
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But his style casts a dark shadow over the material, rendering it claustrophobic.
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Blanche noticed a dark shadow round his chin.
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We know also that the dark shadow of the Whitewater fiasco haunts her every endeavor.
deep
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Middens and wash-houses, already deep in shadow , echoed with the shouts of half-glimpsed children at play.
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But there were even deeper shadows , strange and grave silences surrounding plans to invade the island.
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As the deep black shadow in Glen Keltney closed over them, they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue.
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There was a light in the next window and she drew back into deep shadow .
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The pathway was in deep shadow .
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It was in bright sunlight on one side and in deep shadow on the other.
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Below her window the courtyard was in deep shadow , but to her left the garden was bathed in new-minted sunshine.
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Back in the mews, in the deepest shadow , something cowered.
long
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The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade.
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One idea -- one phrase, really -- casts a long shadow over this discussion.
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Fenella whipped round and saw a long and terrible shadow fall across the floor.
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Individual blades of grass threw long shadows on the leafless driveway.
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There was a hissing sound and Dhani drew a long silver shadow out of the black one.
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It was middle evening, the streetlights on, but the sun still making long shadows .
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Barras conducted a number of interviews that bear moving witness to the long shadow cast by absent fathers.
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A long shadow fell across the ground in front of me.
pale
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The sort of integrated circuit being used was a pale shadow of the microprocessors that are manufactured today.
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If she had tried to present herself and not a pale shadow of Désirée she would have made more impact.
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Light from the bathroom filled the area with pale shadows and gave the damaged patches in the mirror an eerie silvery glow.
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Try using a paler shadow at the inner corner of the lids and blend to a deeper tone on the outside.
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Her early records reveal a tiny voice, pale in the shadow of her acknowledged influences: Armstrong and Bessie Smith.
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The cottage blocked out the sunlight, seeming to fall over her like a pale shadow .
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He said it was a pale shadow of Chris Patten's recommendations for reforming the force.
■ NOUN
eye
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A slow tear ran down her cheek, smudging her green eye shadow .
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Blue eye shadow and long earrings were her only adornments; her fingers were ringless.
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To soften around the eyes , blend the edges of the eye shadow .
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Without iridescent blue eye shadow , an effulgent outfit or a hair-sprayed coif, she looks normal.
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She wore a blusher with flecks in it, and blue eye shadow .
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She took another slug of beer and continued rubbing eye shadow from her left eyelid.
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Hookers don't even wear blue eye shadow .
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Silver-sequined eye shadow fanned all the way up to her sketched-on eyebrows.
■ VERB
cast
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Controls include dimmers for the main light sources, designed to cast no shadows , nomatterwhere the surgeon stands.
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The kids standing on the seats to cast shadows of rabbits, donkeys, or obscene gestures up on to the gigantic screen.
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The room is dark, but passing cars cast yellowy shadows upon the wall.
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Williams has learned that a 6-6, 250-pound tight end and a 5-9, 185-pound running back can cast equally impressive shadows .
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But the flames were growing higher, throwing light, casting dancing shadows .
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Evening had begun to cast long grey shadows around the red-bricked building when Lissa arrived back at her flat.
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June lit their camping lamp which cast weird shadows around the room.
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Against them, the geranium cast a fantastic shadow , umbrellas for leaves, cabbages for flower heads.
emerge
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She searches the farmyard and is frightened when Cain emerges out of the shadows .
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They were emerging from shadow , heading out into the Sun.
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Pop music and a new generation of pop stars are also emerging from the shadows .
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He emerged from the shadow of the bush and scuttled to the wall.
fall
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Tree branches met high overhead, creating a wavering green canopy through which sunlight fell in shadows and coins of light.
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But it fell into the shadow of a unified theory of obesity that holds that obesity results from genetic or metabolic problems.
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Yet, over the same period, research training has fallen under another shadow .
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Between A and B falls the shadow , he wrote.
hide
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That which is hidden away, the shadow , is out in the open!
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Yet even within that community, he managed to remain a man hidden in shadows .
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I looked up but his terrible face was hidden in the shadow of a helmet.
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Winding across them are trees that must be hugging rivers hidden in purple shadows .
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Cosmetics might conceal the pallor of her skin, but it could never hide the shadows in her eyes.
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She was scared of what might be hiding in the shadows but she was terrified of her subconscious.
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I waited a while, hidden in the shadows , watching the convent settle for the night.
lie
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But this rendering of the myth emphasises what lies in the shadow of the model.
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But here, towns lay in the shadow of the landscape.
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Described by one resident as a rough area, Walton village lies in the shadow of both Everton and Liverpool football clubs.
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Four firms are battling for the £70 million mixed-use scheme, which lies in the shadow of the Millennium Dome.
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On the altar there lay a long dark shadow .
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Stopped at traffic lights, he glanced down at the envelope lying in the shadows on the front passenger seat.
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The clay prototype lay in shadow at boot level, dried to the colour of ash.
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Light bores down through cracks in the roof settling on rubbish lying in musty shadows .
live
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People who had been living in the shadow of the rock breathed easily again.
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I was wearing my black dress and moved among the trees like a living shadow .
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A younger son must live in the shadow of this fine brother and serve him.
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In bad times the stream vanished completely, and the tribe lived in the shadow of thirst.
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We continue to live in the shadow of the conservative 1960s.
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Their ma-qui are the two spirits which they believe live in their shadows .
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At 22 he's living in the shadows , his life devastated by 8 years of glue-sniffing.
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Mime has never enjoyed a place on centre stage, it lives in the shadows of fringe theatre and the Big Top.
move
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These men move in the shadows .
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He moved into the shadow of the house and close alongside the window.
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Li Yuan turned, moving out from the shadow of the craft into the mid-afternoon sunlight.
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He moved out of the shadows in a crouch so that he would riot be visible against the lightening sky be-hind hini.
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It circled the small clearing warily, catching the light and jerking as it did so, moving quickly into shadow .
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Large numbers took alarm at our approach, and waves of indeterminate shapes moved into the deeper shadow of the cavern.
see
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You saw a shadow , that's all.
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You saw the shadow of the mountain and you let it into the cave and the fire has gone out.
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If he looks down and sees his shadow , he believes that he alone casts it.
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Now we have seen the shadow .
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The Super Bowl champions have been crowned -- no fatalities this year -- and the groundhog has seen his shadow .
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As we emerged into a square I saw the shadow of a great bridge span hanging almost over us.
stand
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He hadn't spotted them standing deep in the shadows .
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I noticed that Jack had a luminous quality at certain moments, when he stood in shadow .
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She stands in the shadow of the stair and then she goes forward.
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They want to give themselves away, in whispers, to some one standing in the shadows .
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I looked across to where the Hamilton house must stand in its shadows .
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Everyone seemed quite at ease as they remained standing and casting large shadows on Lois and her group.
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Then when I came near the broken house and stood in the moon shadow I could hear and see nothing.
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They stood in deep shadow by the wall of the bridge.
step
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Then Withel stepped out of the shadows and tripped him up.
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A monk in saffron robes steps out of the shadows to stand beside us.
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The machine slid to a halt inside the courtyard, and Hawk stepped out of the shadows .
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He stepped back into the shadows and waited.
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As they drew near, Foley and Carrington stepped out of the shadow of the control tower.
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He stepped out of the shadows , shouted, and waved his arms to attract attention.
throw
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The firelight danced on the old oak walls and threw strange shadows around the room.
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In the gleaming darkness, the big metallic rod threw a menacing shadow across our window.
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Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth, they now survive in a few straggling colonies.
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Occasionally we would pass a big orange flame at a well site, throwing spokes of shadow across the prairie.
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In the bar, a single candle threw grotesque shadows across the ceiling.
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Individual blades of grass threw long shadows on the leafless driveway.
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The sun lifted over the hills and threw their shadows across the road.
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The Embarcadero Freeway and its access ramps no longer throw a shadow on the waterfront.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a shadow/ghost of your former self
cast a shadow/cloud over sth
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And Dexter tried to calm his faint resentment against her for casting a shadow over his optimistic mood.
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Armagh's injury worries cast a cloud over their preparations and Fermanagh could mount a smash and grab raid this time.
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But even should he reappear tomorrow looking hale and hearty, his long absence will have cast a shadow over his position.
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But this has cast a shadow over the College.
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It can not be denied, however, that Ramsey's death cast a shadow over all our activities.
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Show jeopardy: Langbaurgh's budget economies have cast a shadow over the future of East Cleveland's annual show.
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They cast a shadow over his meeting yesterday in the state capital, Chandigarh.
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Without the money ... it could cast a shadow over the future of student theatre in Oxford.
throw a light/shadow
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Begin from a fighting stance, perhaps by throwing a light snap punch into the opponent's face from the front hand.
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But the flames were growing higher, throwing light, casting dancing shadows.
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Fossils do throw light on the history of the lateral line and tail.
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Geographical comparison of patterns of lawbreaking sometimes throws light on more general differences in social and economic conditions.
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He uses relativity to throw light on time and eternity, and indeterminacy to comment on free will.
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The role of premises is to throw light on a subject; the role of evidences is to give weight to it.
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Understanding the nature and activities of such organisations helped throw light upon issues of town identity and representation.
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Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth, they now survive in a few straggling colonies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As we walked along, our shadows lengthened with the setting sun.
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Just then, a dark shadow emerged from the mist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A monk in saffron robes steps out of the shadows to stand beside us.
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I remember these figures illuminated from behind, like giant shadows.
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In the shadows and its gentle movement I believe I see the firelight which constrains and defines the Masai night.
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It was not that I expected some one to hurt me or that I thought there were dangerous things lurking in the shadows.
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More solemn shadows flared as he lit his pipe, the sound of the drawing air strained and high.
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The short shadows of the doorways were filled all day with people snapping their newspapers.
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We can not jump off our own shadows.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a shadow/ghost of your former self
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Consumed with jealousy, he shadowed her for three days, hoping to catch her with her lover.
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Detectives shadowed them for weeks, collecting evidence.
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I want you to shadow him for the next three days and find out who he hangs out with.
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Several students spent a week in the office, shadowing attorneys and office staff.
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The module will pass over several of the moon's permanently shadowed craters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although sullen opposition and private anger still shadows the Communist Party, no disturbances were reported during yesterday's events.
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At that rugged face, shadowed by darkness, into the unearthly blue of his eyes.
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I nodded my head, watching the shadowed figures gesturing, belching in hunger, nodding heads, tippling bottles.
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In all the shadowed places there was snow.
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Sheer terror shadowed her indented eyes, and yet never would she be caught.
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The latter ranges from job shadowing and community service to paid career internships.
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The sun set alight the water drops that speckled their leaves and shadowed the ground beneath them.