Sentence examples for like a shadow of from inspiring English sources

Les feels like a shadow of his reputation.

(Drew Minter, as the court eunuch, sang like a shadow of himself).

Nigeria's final match, on Tuesday, was against Argentina, which had, to that point, looked like a shadow of itself.

Kahnweiler, one of Picasso's art dealers, haunts it like a shadow of himself, a nuclear ghost imprinted in space.

Over the past 20 years he made occasional appearances, at times playing brilliantly, though sometimes sounding like a shadow of his former self.

But if Mr. Hussein looked for much of his time in the courtroom like a shadow of the man he was, he towered compared with the others.

"It's like being a shadow of your own body, caught on the ground, not being able to break out.

Formerly brilliant investigative programmes like Panorama are a shadow of their former selves, with big budgets but small ambition.

For a year, I felt like I was a shadow of myself; I felt a huge pain each time I went near the Bataclan.

Don't try and act like you're in a shadow of not-so-nice smiles.

Like Draper, he becomes a cipher, a shadow of someone else's idea of happiness.