Sentence examples for little shadow from inspiring English sources

Ombretta means "little shadow," and I soon saw how well the name suited.

What has happened becomes "a little shadow; the thing not spoken of".

So demolition seems to be fate for the Astoria, a fragile little shadow of Yorkville's history.

Given the herding mentality, lots of little shadow banks can cause havoc as easily as a few big ones.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

And certainly no one invoked the image, the little shadow, of a young girl flying down the canals of Venice under the sail of her own small boat.

It's always a little shadow-distance ahead of us.

He is the sort of retired boxer who punctuates every conversation with little shadow-box shifts and twitches.

Much more common is what he calls "fancy," a word that comes from and is still a little shadowed by "fantasy".

Moving forward in time, Marina Endicott's The Little Shadows, set in the early 20th century, followed three intrepid young women as they danced and sang in vaudeville shows throughout the west, and Alexi Zentner's Touch, in a story that spanned three generations in a boom-and-bust town in northern British Columbia, introduced golden caribou and dogs that sang.

Other numbers navigate regret with laser-like precision, like the woeful "Little Shadows," an insightful take on a childless couple: "Little Shadows, hidden grief / Silent as a withered leaf / Little faces never kissed / Much imagined, sorely missed".