I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ dark , deep , dense , strong
▪
The house lay in dark ~.
▪ black
▪ faint , pale ( figurative )
▪
The industry is a pale ~ of its former self.
▪ giant , long
▪ eerie , sinister , strange , terrible
▪ dancing , flickering
▪
the flickering ~s of the flames
VERB + SHADOW
▪ cast , create , make , produce , throw
▪
The boat's sail cast a ~ on the water.
▪
Use a desk light to produce a strong ~.
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The candles on the table threw huge flickering ~s against the wall.
▪ fill sth with ~s
▪
The streets were now filled with terrible ~s.
▪ emerge from , move out of , step out from , step out of
▪
Suddenly a large figure emerged from the ~s.
▪ move into , shrink into , slip into
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She shrank back into the ~s as the footsteps approached.
▪ lurk in , wait in , watch from
▪
criminals lurking in the ~s
SHADOW + VERB
▪ fall , lie
▪
The evening ~s were beginning to fall.
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Deep ~s lay across the small clearing where they sat.
▪ get longer , grow longer , lengthen
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As the ~s lengthened, the men drifted home.
▪ creep , move , pass
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The ~s of the clouds passed over us.
▪ loom
▪
A dark ~ loomed over her.
▪ dance , flicker , leap
▪
A dark ~ leaped out of nowhere.
PREPOSITION
▪ among the ~s
▪
an odd shape among the ~s
▪ in the ~s
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I could just make out a figure in the ~s.
▪ into the ~s
▪
I backed into the ~s until the car had passed.
▪ in ~
▪
His face was in ~.
▪ into ~
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The storm clouds threw the mountains into deep ~.
▪ from the ~s , out of the ~s
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A huge figure stepped out of the ~s.
▪ through the ~s
▪
the fears that kept crowding in on her as she hurried through the ~s
PHRASES
▪ live in the ~ of sb/sth ( figurative )
▪
She had always lived in the ~ of her older sister.
II.
adj.
Shadow is used with these nouns: ↑ cabinet , ↑ secretary