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How to use penumbral in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word penumbral? Here are some examples.

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We investigate the dynamics of and the relations between small-scale penumbral and photospheric features near the outer penumbral boundary.
It would obviously be impossible to view the exhibits in the penumbral candlelight by which they would originally have been seen.
It is not that the statute has a penumbral spirit which strikes down devices or stratagems designed to avoid its terms or exploit its loopholes.
Rick would howl, and then rapidly half-wade, half-swim down the penumbral corridor and stumble up onto the next sandbank, laughing.
The nearly flat trail was bordered on one side by precipitous slopes, where penumbral snowfields fell into the crater 100 feet below.
However, because of the high contrast, the penumbral region may be more difficult to image with EC film.
A penumbral eclipse, sometimes called an appulse, occurs when the Moon misses the Earth's umbra but passes through its penumbra or secondary shadow.
Waking, I'm still close to that silent, preconscious, penumbral state, still focussed inward.
I think it's important that we recognize the existence of this problematic, penumbral group, but that doesn't mean that there aren't people who do take responsibility.
During the partial stage the increasing penumbral penetration is not noticeable on a minute-to-minute basis, but as the umbra approaches things start to happen fast.
But the Court, in my view, ought to handle this reform frontally, and not tuck it in, almost surreptitiously, as a penumbral fringe of the right to privacy.
The Moon is moving into the penumbral part of the Earth's shadow.
When the Moon enters the penumbra, a penumbral eclipse occurs.
Examples from Classical Literature
The penumbral line is marked from hour to hour on the maps given annually in the American Ephemeris.
Isabel snuck into the guest bedroom and settled into an overstuffed armchair at a penumbral corner.
Strange, penumbral, characters roam the boardrooms of banks in the countries in transition.
Hart also endorses the 'minimum content of morality' to resolve the penumbral situation.
The line between the real and imaginary is vague and penumbral to us.
It may be that all the elements of the penumbral cone intersect the earth.
Constitution is silent on the issue although the decisional privacy cases do recognize limited penumbral privacy claims.
He sees penumbral visions of himself titubating fantastically through days and nights of space and stars.
Such penumbral eclipses often go unnoticed because the darkening is so slight.
The Article I enumeration is also substantially overinclusive in ways that cannot be mitigated by aggressive penumbral construction of the constitutional text.
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