adumbrating
- present participle of adumbrate.
Example Sentences
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The filmmakers build to this moment as if it were D-Day or the Rumble in the Jungle, excavating a biographical Before and adumbrating a news media After.
From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2015
In Wisconsin last week, Nixon gave a paid, 20-minute nationwide radio speech adumbrating a broad and basically moderate approach to the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adum′brant, Adum′brative, adumbrating or giving a faint shadow.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
There only, they implied, could something adumbrating a sacred ritual and a spiritual consolation be preserved.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson
There was a blind primeval ferocity to be engendered by adumbrating, even for a few moments, their non-existence.
From Command by McFee, William
