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

By week's end, with Laval's return from Paris, Vichy began, if not to explain, at least to adumbrate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The least imaginative man could see that here was an invention that would be epoch-making, but the most visionary dreamer could not even vaguely adumbrate the real measure of its importance.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith