adumbrate

Example Sentences

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His photographs have used a variety of techniques to adumbrate this world.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2017

Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But as soon as you adumbrate thus, you are beset with misgivings.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2016

Together with the bare facts of the retreat at Walden, those lines have become the ones by which we adumbrate Thoreau, so that our image of the man has also become simplified and inspirational.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015

Luther, Calvin and Wesley are as upstarts to him, whose phrases adumbrate the flowery staff of St. Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury.

From Time Magazine Archive

A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)