Example Sentences

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If a phonograph were kept in the house, you would learn from it that the average sentence of the average speaker is an even more grotesque abortion than I have adumbrated.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

As I have adumbrated to you more than once, I am not so sure of all this.

From Captain Macedoine's Daughter by McFee, William

The World State in this ideal presents itself as the sole landowner of the earth, with the great local governments I have adumbrated, the local municipalities, holding, as it were, feudally under it as landlords.

From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)