cerement
Example Sentences
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“Had not the singer of Wimpole Street said that they were binding up their hearts away from breaking with a cerement of the grave?”
From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022
Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spiritual bodies are subject to a process of refinement and decay; and the soul, as the winged butterfly to which it is likened, throws off its cerement and assumes a new form.
From Strange Visitors by Horn, Henry J.
Then the corpse, covered by a long cerement, was tenderly lifted up by six of the nearest kinfolk and borne towards the dark thing I have described.
From The Coming Race by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
They were moving slowly; they were carrying something into the house—something in a white covering that hung heavily as a cerement in the heavy air.
From At Large by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
Vocabulary lists containing cerement
"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 4
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Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 4
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