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Definition of the day : « penumbra »

  • As in shade : noun dimness
  • As in shadow : noun darkness
  • As in eclipse : noun shadowing of the sun
Example sentences :
  • This is the entrance into the “penumbra” (or “Partial shade”).
  • Extract from : « The Story of Eclipses » by George Chambers
  • The idea of change is there, I am willing to grant, but it is hidden in the penumbra.
  • Extract from : « Creative Evolution » by Henri Bergson
  • The penumbra will last quite a long time yet, but it will gradually get fainter and fainter.
  • Extract from : « Pharaoh's Broker » by Ellsworth Douglass
  • Two tears, phosphorescent in the penumbra, rolled from the eyes of the painter.
  • Extract from : « A Chambermaid's Diary » by Octave Mirbeau
  • Each spot is quite sharply divided into an umbra and a penumbra.
  • Extract from : « Astronomy for Young Folks » by Isabel Martin Lewis
  • To-day, even, we can see the Dawn: the Penumbra is vanishing.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of English Music » by Ernest Ford
  • Now I will try and explain to you what the Penumbra is and how it is produced.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Roger Langdon » by Roger Langdon
  • And Porter was still working away, looking ghostly in the penumbra.
  • Extract from : « A Top-Floor Idyl » by George van Schaick
  • Thus they were in a little island of pink light surrounded by penumbra.
  • Extract from : « A Bed of Roses » by W. L. George
  • The answer is not yet made, the oracle has not spoken, and we must not invade the penumbra of genius.
  • Extract from : « Brave Men and Women » by O.E. Fuller