Shadowy has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | It's getting more and more shadowy, soon it will be twilight. | |
| 2. | The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? | |
| 3. | Maybe in another universe, beings are like clouds or shadows in a cloudy or shadowy milieu... | |
| 4. | Once I walked through a golden valley that led to shadowy groves and ruins, and ended in a mighty wall green with antique vines, and pierced by a little gate of bronze. | |
| 5. | Then fury spurred their courage, and behold, / As ravening wolves, when darkness hides the day, / Stung with mad fire of famine uncontrolled, / Prowl from their dens, and leave the whelps to stay, / With jaws athirst and gaping for the prey. / So to sure death, amid the darkness there, / Where swords, and spears, and foemen bar the way, / Into the centre of the town we fare. / Night with her shadowy cone broods o'er the vaulted air. | |
| 6. | Within the palace, open to the day, / there stood a massive altar. Overhead, / with drooping boughs, a venerable bay / its shadowy foliage o'er the home-gods spread. | |
| 7. | On we stride / through shadowy ways; and I who rushing spear / and thronging foes but lately had defied, / now fear each sound, each whisper of the air, / trembling for him I lead, and for the charge I bear. | |
| 8. | I reach the ramparts and the shadowy gates / whence first I issued, backward through the night / my studied steps retracing. Horror waits / around; the very silence breeds affright. | |
| 9. | So spake she, and with weeping eyes I yearned / to answer, wondering at the words she said, / when lo, the shadowy spirit, as I turned, / dissolved in air, and in a moment fled. | |
| 10. | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been shining light on the shadowy world of offshore banking with the publication of leaked documents known as the Panama and Paradise Papers. |