- present participle of shadow.
shadowing
Example Sentences
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He recently won a charity auction to spend a day shadowing Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang and geeked out on the billionaire’s organizational prowess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Instead of shadowing wolves, ravens repeatedly returned to specific areas where kills were more common.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
The documentary team immersed itself in the 2022 McDonald’s All-American Games, shadowing two boys and two girls throughout the weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
That includes shadowing Chinese coastguard ships and responding to suspicious vessels lingering near Taiwan's subsea telecoms cables.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
In other ways Janina was her old self again, chattering, complaining, shadowing me everywhere I went, in everything I did.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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