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

I’d follow a recipe to the letter and still end up squinting at the oven door, trying to gauge whether I’d accidentally created something leaden or gummy or wrong.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2025

But Eggers abandons this tack and steers back toward leaden homage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

Olive removed her leaden shoes and performed a gravity-defying gymnastics routine on a set of parallel bars.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs