Russia's "entrepreneurs" are a penumbral lot, more enamored with off-shore tax havens than with proper management.
The penumbral dealers then vanished without a trace.
The penumbral line is marked from hour to hour on the maps given annually in the American Ephemeris.
It may be that all the elements of the penumbral cone intersect the earth.
There is a certain moment at which the shadow-axis leaves the earth at a certain point, and a series of moments when, the elements of the penumbral cone being tangent to the earth's surface, the eclipse is ending at sunset.
Within the umbral curve the eclipse is annular or total; outside of it and within the penumbral curve the eclipse is partial at the given moment.
In the penumbral shadow below this image, lighted by a single lamp, could be discerned a bas-relief on a sarcophagus, dating from the earliest Christian times.
The setting sun overhead still fell on the capitals of the columns, and their fine illumined scroll-work, contrasted with the penumbral shadow on the floor of the temple, seemed soft and bright as tresses of gold.
I think the intellect, when focussed so as to give definition without penumbral haze, is sure to realise this image at the last.
The force of intellectual penetration into this penumbral region which surrounds actual knowledge is not, as some seem to think, dependent upon method, but upon the genius of the investigator.
The points in the map marked First Contact, Last Contact, show the places at which the penumbral cone first touched the earth and finally left it.
This penumbral cone includes within its surface all that region of space within which the moon cuts off any of the sunlight, and of course it includes the shadow cone which produces total eclipses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penumbral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
