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Sentence Examples It was late afternoon and her body felt leaden with fatigue, but the spark of life at the core of her essential being seemed inextinguishable. Forty minutes later we have the fish pinwheeling to Richard's hands under a leaden sky, McVeigh and his boat ROSGILL hovering in attendance. Going back to school after the long summer break always left me with a leaden feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach. The Daily Mail, a revolutionary departure from the leaden format of its contemporaries, sold a record breaking 300,000 copies of its first issue. Initially it feels leaden, the roisterous energy of the band's 2002 debut dissipated and replaced not with maturity but hesitancy. We saw a grey fantail spreading its tail, a leaden flycatcher wagging its tail, a pair of rufous whistlers, and a pair of mistletoebirds. From start to finish, the 40-over contest was played under leaden skies and falling rain. He is barely recognisable among the grime, dressed in filthy rags and as anaemic and leaden as his surroundings. Back home Harry and I returned to our window, to look out at the sad, flat landscape under a sky that was not so much leaden as plain tired. By her personal alchemy, she changed the leaden show into a golden evening of pleasure. Did they need to give me this little something that shines, when all I've been thinking are dull and leaden sentences? With his legs heavy and leaden through a combination of fear and fatigue, he clambered back to his feet, using the wall behind him for support. After a while, the freshness is gone, and it doesn't take long for the proceedings to become dull and leaden. As Frank continues to stare at Olivia, whose penetrating gaze seems able to capture his secrets, his chest feels heavy, leaden. Soon heavy leaden clouds would blot out the sky but with them would come snow and freedom. A leaden stillness descended and slowed their legs, but sight traveled in reverse and was quickened. Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish. Only the sky was turning a leaden grey, the tide was low, and we were hungry, or at least I was. To my eye, the gardens that looked best under leaden skies were those that used colour in other ways than planting. The brick-like tome devotes ten pages to our city, mostly praising it to the leaden skies. Show More Sentences Sky and water turned leaden grey and we headed for the safety of the nearest island. The leaden grey sky on the left of the car and sun on the right make me stir, looking all around for that favorite rare arch of color in the sky. After four glorious days of sunshine, the fifth day of the hike dawned grey with a leaden ceiling blanketing the sea. It was an eerie and sombre scene, a grey warship beneath a leaden sky with the occasional drop of rain falling. Just one droplet to start with, but the sky was leaden grey and there was much more fallout in store. In this novel the sky is always leaden grey, the light is smoky, the rain is pelting the windows and it is cold. But it wasn't the leaden grey of impending rain, nor was it the hazy grey of fog. No group of fans have tasted the pure air at the top of the mountain and luged so quickly all the way back to the leaden smog. A steady stream of ambulances was coming out of the school drive, all with lights flashing and sirens screaming into the leaden sky. This year it also finds the country in the leaden grip of a seemingly endless process of mourning. But when I awoke early next morning, the city seemed quiet, almost leaden, and the daily traffic jam was missing. I find Woodward's breathless you-are-there insider accounts written in his trademark leaden prose to be virtually unreadable. The 11 tracks on his 12 th album plod soddenly, leaden of pace and bleak of atmosphere. When day broke, the summer dawn could not penetrate the leaden gloom above the city. The rain had let up and the sun was beginning to peek out from behind the leaden clouds. The sight was a most charming and cheerful thing, and would lift the spirits of even the most leaden cynic. The leaden poems have won him immortality as the world's worst poet and now he is to be cast in bronze. He evidently did not know that there was a leaden coffin, or at any rate, had not thought of it. Karen Kohlhaas's direction plays wholeheartedly into the leaden preciosity of the text and manages to make an already dreadful play even more abominable. I looked up at dark branches silhouetted against a leaden sky. Show More Sentences But aside from is leaden, lackadaisical pace, the movie believes in a world so sickly sweet that it would give sugar gliders, fruit bats, and honey bees diabetes. This morning I read it, and it is a lump of leaden prose, ungainly and unattractive, like a plain fat spotty teenager at her prom, dressed like a Christmas cake. The Dead C have been treading the same water since their inception in 1987 and their leaden, layered guitar-soaked dirges just feel tired up against the vibrancy of Konono. The formerly high-octane prose is leaden, repetitive and bulked out with techno-speak and brand names. The silver-tongued campaigner has turned out to be a leaden salesman in the Oval Office. As far as explosively catchy slogans go, that may take the door prize for the most leaden. Thinking about Patients is written in an engaging and conversational style and is an antidote to the increasingly leaden approach of the evidence based medicine enthusiasts. This is a big, fat novel but there is not a leaden or heavy page in it. And it was complemented texturally, visually and tastily by its marinated baby beetroots, though the spring roll of its confit leg was a little leaden. I SHOOT the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use leaden ones, his hide is sure to flatten 'em. Perfect powder snow makes a satisfying scrunch as I plod out to the children's area, an ungainly heel-toe process in the leaden moon boots binding my ankles. But they certainly serve to enliven what a more leaden pen would turn into a schoolroom exercise of memorisation and lexicography. Now they have the treaty, many of the same people are muttering and wailing about unresolved problems hidden in its leaden prose. The leaden seconds dragged away until the hands of the clocks had moved five minutes. The prevailing westerly winds bring sea air and pollution, resulting in leaden skies and stifling air. But she was suddenly struck by a chill that ran down her spine, a heavy leaden feeling in the pit of her stomach as she finally realized what she had down. To make sure the towers are not a blot on the view for local residents, it was ruled that they must be painted a dull grey similar to the leaden Stockport sky. There's a decent version of flan with a hard, almost enameled caramel top, and a somewhat leaden guava bread pudding made heavier by a layer of plantains. Apparently this symbolises jobs done by women, but with its leaden literalism it misses the point of memorials and just reminds you of housework and faceless drudgery. Conifers are dear to many people's hearts, but they don't add much to a garden, tending to be leaden and heavy, in shades of either dull green, or garish yellow and blue. Show More Sentences Sluggish acting and leaden dialogue make this drama a colossal no-no. He lay down on his pallet still pondering, but the exhaustion from his long vigil the previous day swept him off almost at once into a dreamless, leaden sleep. I swam around in circles, unwilling to return to the shore, unable to surrender this state of aquatic, marine grace to the dull, leaden heaviness of dry land. Patrick's body felt overly heavy and leaden, not at all like his own. Since then, with issues ranging from the environment to social justice to human rights, the leaden center has been an albatross weighing heavily against progress. Each leaden edict brings the collapse of the EU closer. And though it's comforting to know that they are happy forevermore, their dialogue is leaden and Ms James does not manage to inspire that happiness with much spark. The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones. The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. However, the city has a leaden post-war heritage. The notion that Canada possesses a surfeit of territory but skimpy and rather leaden history is occasionally echoed by glib commentators who, like Mackenzie King, understand little about the real scope of history. Still ahead of the front, Franck Cammas and his men won't see any big changes over the next few hours with a leaden sky, stable wind and increasingly undulating seas set to continue. You can liken them to a deepsea diver who has to put leaden weights upon his body that he may sink down into the depths of the dark and mysterious sea. The instant flicker of flashbulbs against the leaden sky created a disco-ball effect on championship point this afternoon, but the moment did not move Venus Williams to spin, twirl or trip the light fantastic. I think it is wrong for us in the EU to send European industry out onto the world market with leaden shoes while our American friends are in trainers in India. The putrefactive process must have been arrested by the leaden coffin having been sealed hermetically, and thus the access of air, which modern discoveries have ascertained is essential to putrefaction, was prevented. This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find The harm of unscanned swiftness, will too late Tie leaden pounds to 's heels. That one had a leaden maul and the other a great leaden wapper, therewith they wappered and all forslingered him. A more overrated pedlar of leaden phrases it is hard to conceive. Air-defence missiles shriek across the leaden sky. Show More Sentences Among the most important of his early achievements in this field was the introduction, in 1746, of leaden condensing chambers for the manufacture of sulphuric acid. Critics consider that its fine qualities are marred by leaden effects. And the cold chill of an adder touch Sit with a leaden sway. And the ghosten spell-bound dogs, And the coasten hell-hound dogs, Glooms the coming of the day. Examples from Classical Literature The sky was dull and leaden, and cindery flakes of snow were thinly falling. The tracer bullet consisted of a cupronickel shell, the nose of which contained a leaden core to balance the bullet properly. This pipe is afterwards conveyed into a leaden chest or cylinder, in which all the other eduction pipes also terminate. Take a brain made up of super-charged magnetic crystals enclosed in a leaden cranium and shielded by alloy steel. As they approached it, the dull hue that lay upon it resembled that of the leaden sky. I reached the chart table, almost falling over my leaden feet, seized a short permal T-square, and levered the cover up. When the leaden coffin was soldered, six seals were placed upon it, five by cardinals, and one by the archivist. A few hours later we were landing beside the Albatross, in the leaden blue sea beyond the ice barrier. Spirits that entwine one's heartstrings with tender touch, yet are heavier fetters, more oppressive than leaden weights. The instruments are made of soft iron, and are fixed in leaden chucks, which can be readily fastened to one end of the mandril. Other loadstones are of a leaden colour, fissile and not-fissile, capable of being split like slates in layers. Standing as far from the gauge as possible, he dangled a leaden cap from the end of his ski pole over the projecting tube. With the one the winged sandals of Mercury were not so fleet, with the other, the leaden feet of chronos were not so dull. Can one illume a leaden sky,Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high,Not one funereal glimmer pale? The nitro-glycerine is mixed by means of wooden spatulas with the fine white powder in a leaden vessel. To see the cheerfulness of his countenance when he came in was like the sunburst on a leaden sea. The sun, pale and without rays, poured down leaden heat in a strangely indecisive light, and the Chinamen were lying prostrate about the decks. Is there no difference, Hawkeye, between the stone-headed arrow of the warrior, and the leaden bullet with which you kill? In the meantime the sun had retired behind thick, leaden clouds. God's wrath comes with leaden feet, but it strikes with iron hands. Show More Sentences Those who had not been shot fell to the ground to escape the leaden hail. Her feet were refusing to carry her, leaden and weighty as they seemed. A leaden doggedness had taken the place of his whilom good nature. It was like a rapid, blinding flash of lightning in a leaden sky. The sea had turned a dull leaden grey and grown rougher, and was now tossing foaming whitecaps to the sky. The gold he rejects, the silver too, and lays his hand upon the leaden casket. Dear was she to me as the birds that out in the old garden yonder sing and sing their best to lift up my leaden heart. My pictures stick in the mind longer than your scratchy etchings, or the leaden things in which you fancy you see tender harmonies in gray. Over us, the lowering, leaden clouds were scudding, riding the wind. Did not her mighty messenger, the ancient Iss, bear you upon her leaden bosom at your own behest to the Valley Dor? But at all the dismal dinners, leaden lunches, basilisk balls, and other melancholy pageants, her mere appearance is a relief. We soldered up the leaden coffin, screwed on the coffin lid, and gathering up our belongings, came away. And with the point of a penknife she pulled out the little leaden shot. In furtherance to my idea, I applied to the late Mr Robson, Wharfinger, Newcastle, for leave to try an experiment with one of his leaden vessels, which was granted. To punish me, he shut me up in this vase of copper, and he put on the leaden cover his seal, which is enchantment enough to prevent my coming out. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of leaden? Words that rhyme with leaden What is the past tense of leaden? What is the adverb for leaden? What is the adjective for leaden? What is the noun for leaden? Translations for leaden Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words leaded lead by example lead Leacock leachy leaching leadenly leadenness leader Leader leaderboard leaderless 6-letter Words Starting With l le lea lead leade