Example Sentences

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Shrouding that fun, however, was a palpable and ominous silence.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2022

Shrouding these fears of graduating medical school without learning everything were the questions virtually everyone in the hospital was worried about: would I catch the coronavirus?

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2021

Shrouding Danaë’s upper face in shadow, Titian emphasizes the upturned whites of her eyes, amplifying the ambivalence around the question of her will.

From Washington Post

It plays round the bank and the mossy stone, Where the violet droops like a nun alone; Shrouding her eyes from the noon-tide glare, But breathing her soul to the mountain-air.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

Shrouding the distance, Legions of mist Glide down the river Joining the list Of the shadowy army Hurrying on Over wide waters To welcome the sun.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various