- 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
It adumbrates the indescribable by metaphors and figures.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
The figure of the villain, too, adumbrates, though faintly, the type which engaged Hawthorne's mind in later years.
From Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Edward Woodberry
But now, while we are shown that the moral sense doctrine in its original form is not true, we are also shown that it adumbrates a truth, and a much higher truth.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
