He gave a shadow of his wry smile.

She went out, where the strange, wide moon gave her a shadow like a ghost.

I must give my reader a shadow of her.

Jason gave me a shadow of his usual grin.

He gave only a shadow of a nod.

He gave her a pale shadow of his smile.

Bolan gave them one, a flitting shadow, firing from the hip.

With it, a headline can be bent or angled, given a shadow and distorted in other ways.

There is a Swedish proverb which observes that worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

The moon gave his body a long shadow that lay across the boards of the platform.