SHROUD in a Sentence
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52 example sentences for SHROUD, such as:
1. A human form lay there, wrapped in a shroud.
2. The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.
3. The fog rolled in, and a grey shroud covered the city.
4. The mountain villages seem to be permanently shrouded in mist.
5. Visitors have complained about the scaffolding that shrouds half the castle.
2. The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.
3. The fog rolled in, and a grey shroud covered the city.
4. The mountain villages seem to be permanently shrouded in mist.
5. Visitors have complained about the scaffolding that shrouds half the castle.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SHROUD
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shroud
v. form a cover like a shroud
v. cover as if with a shroud
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1 That admiration led her to study Kennicott, to tear at the shroud of intimacy, to perceive the strangeness of the most familiar.
2 His bone leg steadied in that hole; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow.
3 Suddenly he came to a halt by the bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there, and with one hand grasping a shroud, he ordered Starbuck to send everybody aft.
4 And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them.
5 It was his mother's shroud, he thought; but Cassy had it, holding it up, and showing it to him.
6 He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.
7 One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely defined, covered with a black shroud.
8 Beneath the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the cold folds of the shroud.
9 They recognized the fact, that what they had before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat.
10 Make the shroud, and lay him in my box, and after the dinner party, we'll have a nice little funeral, said Jo, beginning to feel as if she had undertaken a good deal.
11 I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight; but whether gown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell.
12 My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
13 The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on.
14 With a mighty leap he rose to the surface of the sea, while the shot dragged down to the depths the sack that had so nearly become his shroud.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
15 For she rose up in the chair, in her shroud of a dress, and struck at the air as if she would as soon have struck herself against the wall and fallen dead.
Example Sentence:
1 The fog rolled in, and a grey shroud covered the city.
2 A human form lay there, wrapped in a shroud.
3 The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.
4 Fog would shroud Dracula's castle, hiding the ruined tower beneath sheets of mist.
5 It is equally possible to look at them as the buildings that give east Midtown the deathly shroud of commercial obsolescence.
6 The mountain villages seem to be permanently shrouded in mist.
7 Her whereabouts have been shrouded in secrecy since she received the death threat.
8 The two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery.
9 Visitors have complained about the scaffolding that shrouds half the castle.