"shadow" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

shadow sustantivo

sustantivo + shadow
Kolokacji: 31
eye shadow • shadow of one's self • cloud shadow • rain shadow • shadow of death • ...
shadow + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 51
shadow cabinet • Shadow Minister • shadow chancellor • shadow puppet • shadow government • ...
shadow + verbo
Kolokacji: 318
shadow falls • shadow moves • shadow passes • shadow crosses • shadow begins • shadow comes • Shadow makes • shadow lengthens • ...
verbo + shadow
Kolokacji: 58
throw shadows • step out of the shadows • make shadows • come out of the shadows • cast a shadow • leave shadows • create shadows • ...
adjetivo + shadow
Kolokacji: 149
dark shadow • long shadow • deep shadow • black shadow • blue shadow • faint shadow • pale shadow • mere shadow • huge shadow • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 33
(5) faint, pale, light, humped
Kolokacji: 4
(6) mere, stark, exaggerated
Kolokacji: 3
(7) gray, white, inky, somber
Kolokacji: 4
(11) sharp, harsh, crisp
Kolokacji: 3
(14) silent, furtive, invisible
Kolokacji: 3
(15) fleeting, momentary
Kolokacji: 2
(16) cold, damp, dusty
Kolokacji: 3
(18) dappled, mottled
Kolokacji: 2
(19) distorted, misshapen, twisted
Kolokacji: 3
(21) flickering, crooked, slanting
Kolokacji: 3
1. flickering shadow = drgający cień flickering shadow
2. crooked shadow = zakrzywiony cień crooked shadow
  • The lamp threw his huge, crooked shadow over the trunk and the yellow-toothed skull a short way up the aisle behind him.
  • Men were running toward the horses with a scampering crabwise gait, casting long crooked shadows because the fire was at their backs, and Yama threw his weight against the boulder, knowing he would not have a better chance.
  • Spider Gnomes flew past them, hairy, crooked shadows that chittered, howled, and leaped for cover.
  • Long crooked shadows from the mountains' tree-lined summits had moved down the slopes and were touching the seaward edge of Brady Field when Pitt passed through the main gate.
  • It looked like the crooked shadow of a hunchback.
  • Next I found a great place full of crooked shadows, where old furniture was stored, lamp-stands and vases.
  • His crooked shadow glided ahead of him.
  • He was just about to venture another question, when there was a knock at the door, and the short figure of Mr. Gould offered itself, with the melancholy Moon, standing like his tall crooked shadow, behind him.
  • It casts a crooked eleven-o'clock shadow, which merges seamlessly with the shadow of the pier railing.
  • One crooked little shadow, flickering across stones and scrubland, made rapid progress for a quarter of a mile or so.
3. slanting shadow = przekręcając cień slanting shadow
(22) sudden, winged, swift
Kolokacji: 3
(23) jagged, ragged
Kolokacji: 2
(25) new, late-afternoon
Kolokacji: 2
(26) angular, circular, pointed
Kolokacji: 3
(27) broad, wide, sweeping
Kolokacji: 3
(28) permanent, perpetual, constant
Kolokacji: 3
(30) dramatic, towering, formidable
Kolokacji: 3
(31) liquid, transparent
Kolokacji: 2
(32) curved, sinuous
Kolokacji: 2
(33) spidery, thickening
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + shadow
Kolokacji: 21
of shadow • with shadows • under the shadow • into the shadows • beyond a shadow • ...

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