- 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
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
Of the six "Idyls," three—"In the Woods," "Siesta," and "To the Moonlight"—are memorable, though uneven; and of these the third, after Goethe's "An den Mond," adumbrates faintly MacDowell's riper manner.
From Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman
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
