Sentence examples for scant shadow from inspiring English sources

Dorothy Emanuel LIKE WICKED WITCHES Dark mounds of old snow lean improbably against city street lights, skulk in scant shadow, huddle near newsstands, eavesdrop on world events.

A landmark immigration overhaul passed by the Democratic-led U.S. Senate in June seeks to tighten security on the U.S border and a path to citizenship for millions of unauthorized immigrants living in the shadows, although it faces scant chance of passage in its current form in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

The move out of the shadow of Mr. Uribe, who showed scant delight at international meetings, has something to do with Colombia's shifting political winds.

The reports are becoming a tick-box pro forma, and are more scant than they used to be without a shadow of doubt," says Jumnoodoo.

Scant exaggeration: for half the set, the stage is drenched in shadow.

After a second, smaller bounce, it finally came to awkward stop tipped up on its side and sitting in the shadows of some sort of cliff wall, with scant sunlight to recharge its batteries.

Cassavetes started his directing career with "Shadows," shot wildly on the streets of New York with a scant budget raised in large measure from listeners to Jean Shepherd's radio broadcast.

As Job says at one point: Man born of woman, scant of days and sated with trouble, like a blossom he comes forth and withers, and flees like a shadow — he will not stay.

Scant consolation.

It drew scant attention.

Winds are scant.