leaden

Example Sentences

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Perhaps an exhibition could explore Jewish artists wrestling with their traditions, but here these objects land like leaden agitprop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

All this after Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to field under a leaden sky.

From BBC • May 22, 2025

Why not spend it making a cozy home, tending a little garden, shutting out the leaden horrors outside?

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2024

They’ve accomplished it, but at the expense of engagement, resulting in a collection of leaden scenes that might make the audience want to claw out of its own skin.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

The sun stays longer each day now, climbing mechanical as a goat off the leaden horizon.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner