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Example sentences for "adumbrated"

Lexicographically close words:
adulterine; adulterous; adultery; adulthood; adults; adumbration; adumbrations; adunque; aduocate; adust
  1. And it is evident that the great super-sensible realities and relations adumbrated by such figures, did not, with her, lead to mere dry or vague apprehensions.

  2. Luckily, the number of people who hold the fundamental theory of education adumbrated in this view is becoming so rapidly smaller that this chapter will, let us hope, be too late to reach them.

  3. Take the story adumbrated in The House That Jack Built.

  4. In very fact, ulterior designs are inevitably adumbrated in constantly lowering industrial and associated averages.

  5. The instinct to forage upon, and tear at their kind, is grimly adumbrated in the gusto with which they cut notches in their guns.

  6. Moreover, the public at large has been minded to do its duty: fact adumbrated in the vital circumstance that a prisoner is seldom held long in duress for want of a free-life job, albeit millions of crime-free hands remain idle.

  7. The central, the underlying aim which animates it is the establishment of the New World Order as adumbrated by Bahá’u’lláh.

  8. Its lines were adumbrated by Alberic, but it received its final form at a meeting of the abbots in the time of Stephen Harding, when was drawn up the Carta Caritatis (Migne, Patrol.

  9. The superfluous quantity of the photo-adumbrated sphere is nil at the apex of the two opposite triangles, or in the equinoctial region.

  10. At all other times, the equator of the photo-adumbrated sphere, in whose plane the orb of light is situated, passes sometimes above and sometimes below the terrestrial equator.

  11. Neither let him deem himself an atheist because he cannot believe in the Deity adumbrated by "God save the King.

  12. The instructions given by Mr. Charles Buller, the first President of the Poor Law Board, adumbrated in the guise of a policy what were really two distinct and inherently incompatible lines of action.

  13. To that person is reserved the pleasure of fathoming the intention, of completing the idea adumbrated by the composer.

  14. These final works, these last sonatas and poems and preludes of Scriabine are but the essentialization of the personal traits adumbrated by the compositions of the earlier periods.

  15. In it he adumbrated many of the ideas that were later developed in Orthodoxy.

  16. The idea had been adumbrated of calling one of his books: Joking Apart and only rejected because of the fear that if he said he was not joking everyone would be quite certain that he was.

  17. Once this new conception of a sky-world was adumbrated a luxuriant crop of beliefs grew up to assimilate the new beliefs with the old, and to buttress the confused mixture of incompatible ideas with a complex scaffolding of rationalization.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adumbrated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.