penumbra

Example Sentences

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While lit with the penumbra of a spotlight aimed elsewhere, he coolly mimed the smoking of a cigarette with a kazoo.

From New York Times

Maybe it was a fog, or a ghost, or the emanations of the penumbras that come out of the Constitution and offer us guidance.

From Washington Post

His voice is a baritone croon with an electronic penumbra, in a track that hints at old soul translated into ghostly electronics.

From New York Times

On a December day in the foothills near Seattle, walking into the sun southward and nearly blinded, all you can see are penumbras of emerald-green moss along the vertical edges of the trunks.

From Seattle Times

Dried sunflowers and books fashioned from lead are recurrent themes of a world that hovers in the penumbra between life and death.

From New York Times