- present tense form of adumbrate (3rd person singular).
adumbrates
Example Sentences
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More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel life.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
But they furnish such extensive extracts from diaries and letters, as well as such detailed ''work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his letter to Payne of 23rd December 1882, Burton adumbrates a visit eastward.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright
The eyes of education are fixed always upon the future, and philosophy of whatever kind, directly adumbrates a Utopia, thinks on educational lines.
From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various
Very many things could be regimented and organized into the mute system of education that Goethe evidently adumbrates there.
From On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle
