Sentence examples for a shadowy time from inspiring English sources

Gamma rays coming from the most distant sources could shine a light on the epoch of earliest galaxy formation, a shadowy time in cosmic history that has so far eluded direct observation.

It is said to have arrived in Lucca on a cart drawn by untamed oxen after having come ashore on an unmanned ship at some shadowy time a millennium ago.

It's a sign of our shadowy times that the latest regulatory "reform" bill hasn't been laughed out of Washington.

His investigation, which has included a face-to-face appeal to Cardinal John J. O'Connor and a clandestine meeting with a shadowy informer, has at times seemed more suited to an espionage novel than the workaday life of a parish priest from New Jersey.

A group of men, neither police officers nor soldiers, walk through a shadowy bazaar, oblivious of the time.

Christopher Howell was a shadowy man who never had time for his family, which he abandoned in order to continue his artful yet puzzlingly unproductive career.

SamSam, a "shadowy hacking crew," as the Times described it, had reportedly penetrated the city's computer network with ransomware a decade-old technology that infects a computer or a network and blocks access to personal data through encryption and was holding access to the network for ransom: approximately fifty-one thousand dollars, to be paid in bitcoin.

Over time, Drake became a shadowy staple of underground pop and a favorite of other songwriters.

Part of a shadowy urban guerrilla group at the time of her capture in 1970, she spent three years behind bars, where interrogators repeatedly tortured her with electric shocks to her feet and ears, and forced her into the pau de arara, or parrot's perch, in which victims are suspended upside down naked, from a stick, with bound wrists and ankles.

And I was having a tough time tracking down a shadowy team of scientists willing to conduct genetic experiments on me that might kill me but might also bestow me with superhuman strength.

The authors, veteran correspondents for The New York Times, delve into a shadowy theater of war: the counterterrorism efforts of American ground troops, intelligence operatives and executive-branch officials since the Sept. 11 attacks.