Sentence examples for shadow of what was from inspiring English sources

With The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington (Orbit, £12.99), we're in epic fantasy territory.

What was going on with the primes turned out to be a shadow of what was going on in this more general world.

There are MPs who voted with the government on the bill because Offa improved access, but Offa has proved to be a shadow of what was promised".

By December 2007, the beginning of the Great Recession, the news outside seemed a shadow of what was occurring inside the plant — where, among other hardships, there was no heat.

Student leaders today labelled the Office for Fair Access (Offa) "toothless", claiming it had been so watered down under pressure from universities that it was a "shadow" of what was once promised.

And through the spirit of people like Mr. Alameddine, who would become one of the random shooting victims, they continued to send out feelers: small human invitations that, in the shadow of what was to come, now look very large indeed.

In the shadows of what was once called the "dark continent," a scramble has come and gone.

Today, it is a shadow of what is was then.

Mr. Reid's latest version is not even a pale shadow of what is needed.

How is it possible to discern letters no higher than an inch and a half in the shadow of what is to be the tallest skyscraper in New York City?

The traffic now bustles beneath the shadow of what is only the second metro ever built south of the Sahara.