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Grammar : Adj
Spell : led-n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɛd n



Definition of leaden

Origin :
  • "made of lead," Old English leaden, from lead (n.1) + -en (2). The figurative sense of "heavy, oppressive, dull" is attested by 1570s. Related: Leadenly; leadenness.
  • adj made of lead
  • adj heavy
  • adj lead-colored
  • adj gray
Example sentences :
  • As they approached it, the dull hue that lay upon it resembled that of the leaden sky.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Now the minutes dragged with leaden feet until Dick should come.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • The sky was dull and leaden, and cindery flakes of snow were thinly falling.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • In the meantime the sun had retired behind thick, leaden clouds.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • God's wrath comes with leaden feet, but it strikes with iron hands.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Those who had not been shot fell to the ground to escape the leaden hail.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
  • Her feet were refusing to carry her, leaden and weighty as they seemed.
  • Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
  • It was like a rapid, blinding flash of lightning in a leaden sky.
  • Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
  • The leaden casting to which the plates of a group are joined.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • Thorpe looked at him in his old apathetic, leaden fashion for a little.
  • Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic

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