Sentence examples for to be shadowy from inspiring English sources

I would have to be shadowy — like the ghost of a handbag — so nearly black or anthracite.

According to Jamieson, the ability to download videos from smartphones directly onto the Internet has normalized what used to be shadowy practices.

He is not the only benevolent, if faintly alarming elderly man in her fiction; fathers, by contrast, tend to be shadowy or absent.

Editors tend to be shadowy figures -- the power behind the throne of authorship, as it were -- and none is more fiercely private than Alice Mayhew, the editorial director of Simon & Schuster.

Record producers tend to be shadowy, backroom figures, but Ronson was almost needlessly handsome, dated supermodels and came from a family so famous in New York society that Tatler magazine had claimed, perhaps a little hysterically, that anyone who didn't know them should leave Manhattan.

A further source of corruption, according to the report, is "shadowy outside spending".

In terrorism trials, facts may be unclear, some methods used by Bush administration officials to gather evidence were shadowy and perhaps tainted, and the evidence itself might be mired in the kinds of secrets that officials say could affect national security.

But Jakwob – 20 years old, Midlands boy, still at Uni – doesn't just want to be a shadowy figure hiding behind other musicians' work.

But while some of the violent inclination appears to stem from the frustration of those who saw their peaceful stance ignored, there also appear to be more shadowy forces at work.

He had bought a telephone calling card from the back pages of the Spotlight, the right-wing newspaper dedicated to seeking out and exposing the Bilderberg Group, the internationalist think tank believed by conspiracy theorists, McVeigh included, to be the shadowy elite that secretly rules the world.

It's a group many believe to be a shadowy and violent Hindu organisation with umbilical ties to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).