mantle

In his hands a wafer-thin passage of clay becomes the fluttering hem of the Virgin’s mantle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

“They’re not asking Taking Back Sunday this stuff,” Dangerfield acknowledged when asked if they might tire of the representation mantle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

This process produced the first mantle cumulates and anorthositic crust, before the Moon became tidally locked to Earth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

We think that HD 3167 b might have a silicate-rich composition, with a similar mixture of minerals that make up Earth's mantle.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Secondary waves move through the solid rock of the mantle, but cannot penetrate the molten iron outer core.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

To my knowledge, Carney’s creator is neither crook nor salesman, but Whitehead can lay claim to those other two mantles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

A full generation of White House advisers decided that image was static and inert, that a president looks more dynamic if he’s standing, with long halls or mantles behind him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

“Uranus and Neptune have disordered magnetic fields because they produce these fields in a thin water-rich layer in their mantles while our Earth generates its magnetic field in the core,” Militzer said.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2024

Unlike most animals, whose eyes feature retinas that send images to the brain, scallops have mantles covered with hundreds of tiny blue dots, each of which contains a curved mirror at its back.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2023

In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

And even as blue skies return, the flood-weary farmers have only to look east, to the towering Sierra mantled in historic layers of snow, to know there is worse to come.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

But low methylation — Bad Karma — results in mantled fruit.

From Nature ● Mar. 14, 2017

Mateo has also studied golden mantled ground squirrels, which recognize kin but don't react in an obvious way.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 25, 2015

Chorizo is mantled with a parsley-heavy chimichurri and an unexpectedly nuanced aioli made with aji panca, a smoky-fruity Peruvian red pepper.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013

They climbed Parnassos’ rugged flank mantled in forest, entering amid high windy folds at noon when Helios beat upon the valley floor and on the winding Ocean whence he came.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

As he gobbled the bloody morsel, he spread his wings, fanned his tail and arched his body over the food — an instinct known as mantling, protecting the prey from other predators.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018

The hawklet then covered the entire meal with his wings, a behavior known as mantling, which hawks employ to hide their kills from other birds of prey who might be flying by.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2017

For some time she had experienced the sensation of clouds coming over her, mantling thought.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016

He saw the superb polish, the fresh padding, and the new mantling set behind.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

He lifted the helm to his nose and sniffed the mantling.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White