sheathing

Example Sentences

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Sheathing the 29 posts that circle the community pond with their knitted and crocheted creations, the women have recreated the cast of characters set to attend the big event.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2023

Sheathing representations of the 20th century art canon could read as an act of hommage, of protection.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2019

Sheathing his sword with a business-like air, and rudely pushing his prisoner into the house, whither Bacri had already retired, the young soldier entered and shut the door.

From The Pirate City An Algerine Tale by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Justice that reddens the sky with her terrors, Mercy that comes with her white-handed train, Soothing all passions, redeeming all errors, Sheathing the saber and breaking the chain.

From Graded Memory Selections by Hughes, Charles C.

Sheathing the knife and seizing his rifle, he again set forward, and did not stop till he gained a small but thick under-brush.

From The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 by Watson, Henry C.