Sentence examples for a vague shadow from inspiring English sources

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In their eyes, the war that killed an estimated 200,000 Guatemalan civilians is a vague shadow.

The housing slump casts "a vague shadow" on the category, said Roberta Garfinkle, senior vice president and director for print strategy at a media agency, TargetCast TCM.

But what many of his colleagues viewed as a vague shadow spreading across the distant horizon, Ford accepted as a certainty that would require, and reward, advance preparation.

When an animal or plant goes extinct, we are left with a vague shadow of the species -- a bone here, a skin there, a flower pressed between the pages of a book, or a painting perhaps, although increasingly in this modern age, we also have photographs, video, audio, or sometimes, DNA.

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We all looked — a vague white shadow, a green light.

The Tent City tour has revealed absolutely nothing, except a couple of empty hallways and a couple of vague shadows of striped uniforms wandering around a yard.

In a way, she had vague shadows of Walter, but then [she] drifted away from that.

Feeling dispirited and perhaps also hungry, he tried to remember the faces of his employees, but the images he could summon were vague: shadows moving in the corridor, a commotion of clean laundry, murmurs and hushed voices.

"Lying there in the dark, watching vague shadows on the polyester, it feels like a world of unknowns is outside pressing in".

I could make out vague shadows on the back of the canvases that seemed a bit like modified camouflage.

Vague shadows flitted past the window bats.

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