Sentence examples for he was shadowy from inspiring English sources

He even thought that species could arise continually through a common ancestral form, modified somehow by development and the influence of the environment; but he was shadowy on these points (Padian 1997, 2007).

You know he's shadowy because his face is kept in shadows during their first hushed meeting.

It was shadowy and cool inside.

Inside, the room was shadowy and hot.

The room was shadowy and cool, and we blinked in the darkness.

Tesfaye himself was shadowy at first, declining interviews and avoiding cameras, but his work spoke loudly.

The forest floor was shadowy, but a bright green sunlight filtered through the canopy.

Once upon a time every journalist's favourite word when talking about Al Qaeda was "shadowy".

Michael Gove, when education secretary, used to go around pronouncing himself a localist, adding that he meant taking power away from councils and giving it to schools (although what he really meant were shadowy chains and unelected chairs of governing bodies).

What he offers most is shadowy or demanding women in a world full of one-dimensional men.

(As one character walks around a house, "he was acutely alert to the shadowy places, becoming darker in the twilight, the places where you could hide and then appear").