leaden

Modifying Another Word

• so: Why do your legs feel so leaden when you try to run after strenuous cycling?
• very: Fanfare was made very leaden by the presence of the narrator.

Modifies a noun

• coffin: I got a shell on the Sunday, and a leaden coffin, into which he was placed and soldered up.
• sky: She was too intent on scouring the leaden sky for the sign.
• pipe: Leaden pipes and conduits, leading from the hospital to the priory, have been dug up in the fields.. .
• cross: If the inscribed leaden cross was genuine it proved it anyway, because it said " here in the Isle of Avalon " .
• weight: His grief, both at Thomas`s death and the certain imminence of his father`s, was like a leaden weight in his breast.
• casket: The heart of King Robert I ( The Bruce ) is buried in a leaden casket in Melrose Abbey.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Thompson, so effective going forward looked leaden footed as Clayton Hook tore past him and half the length of the pitch.
• feel: Why do your legs feel so leaden when you try to run after strenuous cycling?