Sentence examples for leaden from inspiring English sources

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.13pm BST21:13 12 min: A leaden touch from Jerome Boateng on the edge of his own penalty area puts Per Mertesacker under pressure from Slimani, but the German centre-half clears.

A more overrated pedlar of leaden phrases it is hard to conceive.

Now they have the treaty, many of the same people are muttering and wailing about unresolved problems hidden in its leaden prose.

Air-defence missiles shriek across the leaden sky.

But Italy is held back by a leaden bureaucracy.

Yet she had learned by then no longer to let her dupatta slip in public to leave her head uncovered.At Oxford, she impressed her father also an alumnus by becoming president of the Union, a debating society with a line in leaden sophomoric wit.

In this sort of situation, however, something always seems to stir in the soul of the most leaden-footed West Germany footballer.

Where's the rancour, the plots, the Byzantine swirl of rumour and leaden-footed positioning?

Dominated by men and dogmatic by instinct, they have been leaden-footed in response to profound changes in industries and markets.

Sitting his grade one piano exam, as the leaden-fingered politician did last year, was apparently "more frightening" than speaking in the Commons.

It is also well known that Hong Kong's people, jealous of the freedoms they enjoyed under the British and, since 1997, as a special administrative region of China, fear losing them in a creeping process of absorption by the mainland.So it is surprising that rather than trying to allay these fears, Mr Leung, by design or political leaden-footedness, has been stoking them.