Fight a phantom

Usage examples of shadowbox.

The storefront is nothing but a dusty shadowbox smelling of bleach, soap, and starch.

The sight was astonishing, for he continued to shadowbox his imaginary opponent, dragging the chair behind him like an anchor.

The flashlight procession moved on, and the papal silhouettes rose and fell against the walls, stretching and vanishing in a macabre shadowbox dance.

As he shadowboxed he loosely babbled of fraud and betrayal, redundancy, eviction.

Its blood-smeared mouth opened and it hoisted itself, lower legs scrabbling for purchase on its mother’s deflating belly, upper ones almost seeming to shadowbox at Susannah.

Its blood-smeared mouth opened and it hoisted itself, lower legs scrabbling for purchase on its mother's deflating belly, upper ones almost seeming to shadowbox at Susannah.

But, he knew, like all the other firms they had to shadowbox around the issue until things got awkward and it was apparent they had discussed everything in the world but money.

It is not my intention to visit your office regularly for the next twenty years for the sole purpose of shadowboxing with you.

Lying there, he realizes he’s already positioned for the coffin, posed for eternity, and that recognition makes him roll up to his feet and begin his shadowboxing, working up a sweat.

Here he was, shadowboxing with unseen antagonists, and he still wasn't sure whether or not what he had found was his.

There was good air and light and I worked quite hard, skipping rope, shadowboxing, doing abdominal exercises lying on the floor in a patch of sunlight that came through the open window, and occasionally scaring the professor when we boxed.