adumbrate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with adumbrate, each labelled with its topic.

• The opening chapter adumbrates the ending, planting a locked drawer that nobody opens for three hundred pages.

  Literature

• The first sketch only adumbrates the tower, a few lines showing height and setback with no windows drawn.

  Architecture

• The score adumbrates the storm two scenes early, low strings arriving while the sky is still clear.

  Movies

• The overture adumbrates every theme of the opera in outline, so listeners have already heard the finale's tune.

  Music

• The minister's speech only adumbrated the reform, sketching its goals without offering a single figure or date.

  Politics

• The preface adumbrates the whole system in ten pages, leaving the proofs to the six volumes that follow.

  Philosophy

Found in these word lists

Found in 3 published word listsRecognized

• Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE Words
• GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)
• SparkNotes 1000 SAT Words

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More Literary words

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