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enshroud

[en-shraud] / ɛnˈʃraʊd /


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Here are five myths that have helped enshroud him.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019

I find these treasures littering the back of the refrigerator, looking like crumpled silver cat toys, and wonder why it was necessary to enshroud this bite of food instead of just, you know, eating it.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2018

The same is almost possible these days in New York, where more than 280 miles of scaffolding, some of it more than a decade old, now enshroud the perpetually unfinished cityscape.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017

During winter, the smoke from our fires and the mist from the lakes would mingle and enshroud our village.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2017

Shearwaters skim the ramparts; sleeves of vapor enshroud the steeple.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Piece by piece, the scaffolding that enshrouds the site will come down over the course of 2024, in time for its planned Dec. 8 reopening to the public.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Reason four he enshrouds with disclaimers: that it is not his intention to tell “a sob story”, that “I don’t like people feeling sorry for me”.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2017

Actually, “Rogue One” is unusually dark, but only in the literal sense—its cinematography enshrouds the characters in a surprisingly murky depth of shadows.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2016

That subtlety enshrouds it in mystery: Scientists are busily determining what dark energy does, and they have yet to reach any consensus on what dark energy is.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2014

Down in the loop the blue-gray air enshrouds, As with a cyclops' cape, the man-made hills And towers of granite where the city crowds.

From Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters

With their country enshrouded in trauma amid the ongoing war with Russia, a team hauled together shone brightly at a sun-drenched Hampden.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025

Contrast that with the gloom that enshrouded the Bruins on Thursday during their third consecutive loss, not to mention a pitiful encore to their flat showing against rival USC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

In addition to giving off optical and X-ray bursts, TDEs can generate infrared radiation, particularly in "dusty" galaxies, where a central black hole is enshrouded with galactic debris.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

Thick fog enshrouded the Vatican before dawn as civil protection crews and police manned metal detectors and barricades to herd well-wishers into the square.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

A spectral fog enshrouded the island, blanking it from view, and we broke from rowing to watch it fade.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Flying into southern Iraq in March, the irony felt as thick as the murk enshrouding the city of Basra below.

From Salon ● May 22, 2022

They have collaborated impressively on the illusions conjured by imaginations running wild, images populated by Botticelli paintings come to life, mutating floral landscapes and mist-covered oceans enshrouding dreamlike figures.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2021

Thankfully, summer crowds are mostly abated this time of year and visitors will be treated to a show of brilliant fall foliage enshrouding the pristine mountain lake.

From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021

He began putting in volunteer shifts of up to 20 hours transporting bodies, putting them in freezers in the funeral home, washing and enshrouding them in white cloth and taking them to cemeteries for burial.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2021

Suddenly, from the enshrouding masses of cloud, a dark, symmetrically elongated shape shot rapidly into the starlight.

From Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman




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