penumbras
- plural of penumbra.
Example Sentences
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On a December day in the foothills near Seattle, walking into the sun southward and nearly blinded, all you can see are penumbras of emerald-green moss along the vertical edges of the trunks.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
Rigging raises a sheet, in front of and behind which the dancers play with shadows, misshapen ones with extra auras and penumbras.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
Or are all enforceable rights either enumerated or penumbras formed by emanations of enumerated ones?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2022
He wrote, mystically, that “specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.”
From The New Yorker ● May 18, 2015
The deputy pivoted in the direction of the doorway and shouted at a featureless face broken up in equidistant penumbras by four bars, “Who’s there?”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
