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
The choice of adverb is peculiarly pregnant, contriving as it does simultaneously to affirm faith and to adumbrate doubt.
From Time Magazine Archive
If all rites, then our holidays among the rest, serve only to adumbrate and shadow forth something, and by consequence are unprofitable and idle, when the substance itself is clearly set before us.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
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