A shadowy figure went past in the darkness.
The shadowy figure then disappeared into the darkness without another word.
A few paces off in the darkness there was a shadowy figure squatting against the wall, but tie turned out to be a tramp.
A night watchman claims to have spotted a shadowy figure in the TimeLine, which charts the history of the world's oceans.
I awoke to see shadowy figures with torches in my bedroom.
Two shadowy figures, one hunched and squat, the other lean and menacing, both of them Olympic grade lurkers.
As tensions roil with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines over maritime territorial claims, the role of these shadowy figures among China's security policymakers is a topic of much speculation.
