adumbrate

Example Sentences

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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

In the midst of Author Beebe's spells, one is continually jerked up by the wish that, on his present trawling trip to Galapagos, he may lose the word "adumbrate" forever overboard.

From Time Magazine Archive

To define, or rather to adumbrate, the realm of mystery, which is yet as indisputably real as the realm of reason and sense, we naturally turn to the poets, the seers.

From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by Archer, William