- present participle of shadow.
shadowing
Example Sentences
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Wednesday's full eclipse may be something many of us remember for a long time: the special glasses, the colanders, and the eerie shadowing of the sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Instead of shadowing wolves, ravens repeatedly returned to specific areas where kills were more common.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
In the early 1990s, David Dorsey spent a year shadowing executives selling copiers for then-booming Xerox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
That includes shadowing Chinese coastguard ships and responding to suspicious vessels lingering near Taiwan's subsea telecoms cables.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
"And why should he stop just when we do? Shasta, my boy, I do believe there's someone shadowing us at last."
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
