adumbrate

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

The mind is baffled in seeking to find human speech which shall even adumbrate reality.

From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Saint of Siena Catherine

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

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

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

Passages of the original work underlined and adumbrated with exclamation marks and double or even treble question marks; phrases scored out and notes running down the margin at right angles to the printed text.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020

In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2019

His work on neuroscience and his initial support of McCulloch and Pitts adumbrated the startlingly effective deep-learning methods of the present day.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2019

But while lauding the rights and privileges of the Americans he observed, Tocqueville also adumbrated the responsibilities that came with being an American citizen.

From Time ● Nov. 2, 2016

I muttered that in fragments, but the lines only adumbrated the longing without revealing its hidden fount.

From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

The filmmakers build to this moment as if it were D-Day or the Rumble in the Jungle, excavating a biographical Before and adumbrating a news media After.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2015

In Wisconsin last week, Nixon gave a paid, 20-minute nationwide radio speech adumbrating a broad and basically moderate approach to the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adum′brant, Adum′brative, adumbrating or giving a faint shadow.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

"Ah—well you may ask that!" said Henchard, the new-moon-shaped grin adumbrating itself again upon his mouth.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Liddy continued, adumbrating by the remark the track her thoughts had taken.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy