Example Sentences

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The opening event had been thus different from her expectation, and she had adumbrated no act to meet it. 

From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas

I had adumbrated a scheme to arouse interest in his case among certain scholars and men of influence with whom I was slightly acquainted.

From The Wonder by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)

Les Misérables is the consummation of the romantic conception of fiction which Rousseau had adumbrated half a century before.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

The opening event had been thus different from her expectation, and she had adumbrated no act to meet it.

From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn