Sentence examples for became a shadow from inspiring English sources

They talked politics all day, & Veronica became a shadow.

That became a shadow to the screenplay as it was being written.

He took on a role that remains stigmatised and discriminated against in today's China: he became a shadow banker.

She crossed behind the backdrop and, lit from behind, became a shadow that gamboled past, her silhouette shrinking and growing as she varied her distance from the backdrop.

A time of relative quiet and cultural conservatism followed, as Spanish theatre became a shadow of the French an irony, given that Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, and Molière borrowed many themes and characters from Spanish Golden Age originals.

Most of its famously opinionated writers Robert Christgau, Nat Hentoff, Wayne Barrett, Michael Musto were fired or quit, and without them the paper became a shadow of its former self: depoliticized, bland, incurious.

"His life had become a shadow," a friend later said.

As a pastime, stargazing has become a shadow of its former self.

But recently, the former captain said, Tendulkar has become a "shadow" of the player he was.

Stephen Twigg, the former shadow education secretary, becomes a shadow minister in the justice team, responsible for constitutional affairs.

Come summer, a brook becomes a shadow of its former self and a place of considerable mystery.