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
This was at once both good and bad for the little Emperor, good because it made the bursting of his cerement easy, bad because it made the drying of his wings slow.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas
There was another darkness about her, thicker than the mere night, like a black cerement dropping over her soul.
From Wild Oranges by Hergesheimer, Joseph
Wrapper by wrapper he undid, cerement on cerement, till both Leonora and I wondered when he would stop.
From He by Pollock, Walter Herries
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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