Thesaurus / adumbrate
FEEDBACKHow to use adumbrate in a sentence
There had, in truth, scarcely yet been time enough to adumbrate the possibilities opened up by this gentleman's return.
A LAODICEANTHOMAS HARDYFeeble is human speech to deal with such high matters, serving, at the best, but dimly to adumbrate ineffable truths.
THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, JANUARY 1883VARIOUSFrom now onwards the speeches of Brutus strangely adumbrate those of Hamlet.
THE NEW HUDSON SHAKESPEARE: JULIUS CAESARWILLIAM SHAKESPEARETwo short passages adumbrate the coming Tennyson, the rest is mystic nonsense.
A. W. KINGLAKEW. TUCKWELLA type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.
COMPANION TO THE BIBLEE. P. BARROWSOne could adumbrate triumph or disaster by the effort, sustained or otherwise, made by them.
THE SOUL OF SUSAN YELLAMHORACE ANNESLEY VACHELLSo far as communism of capital is concerned, did not Cleveland's graphic statement adumbrate the conditions as they exist today?
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESSVARIOUSBut it is now time to state, or rather faintly to adumbrate, the grand assumption of this singular work.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 15, NO. 88, FEBRUARY, 1865VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO ADUMBRATE
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