SHADOW in a Sentence

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Jean Valjean was in the shadow, and stood motionless, with his iron candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHADOW
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shadow
 n.  a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
3  The shadow of the passions of the moment traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
4  Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its foliage in his shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
5  She saw the man stretched out in the shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
6  When the workmen passed in the morning, they beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and doubled up over his basket.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
7  He dwelt habitually in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
8  He thinks of the gloomy adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
9  This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of twilight.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
10  Jean Valjean was in the shadow, and stood motionless, with his iron candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
11  In his shadow could be seen germinating that future advocate-general of Broe, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis Courier.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
12  The Duc de Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married to a princess of Sicily.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
13  Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the unknown.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
14  A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
15  The shadow which they bear in their glance denounces them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that this entire hubbub was about him.
17  The shadow of the gallows would loom threateningly above the small boy.
18  We could see the morning sunlight illuminate the pinnacle while the rest of the mountain lay in shadow.
19  This pleasure consisted in prospect of noble summits girdling a great hill-hollow, rich in verdure and shadow; in a bright beck, full of dark stones and sparkling eddies.
20  He showers praise on his shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, as the man who has repositioned Labour as a party of fiscal rectitude and comes close to anointing him chancellor if Labour wins on 7 May.
21  The eclipse will cast its 95-mile wide shadow starting at dawn in Australia's Northern Territory, then cross the north-east tip of the country before swooping east across the South Pacific.
22  The shadows of the trees grew longer as the afternoon went on.
23  The artist is picking in shadows in the picture.
24  The shadows deepened toward late afternoon.
25  Coming events cast their shadows before them.
26  They throw their shadows before them who carry their lantern on their back.
27  He crouched in the shadows near the doorway.
28  He was lolling on the sofa in the shadows near the fire.
29  Glory, honour, wealth, and rank, such things are nothing but shadows.
30  He walked along in the shadows hoping no one would recognize him.