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
The ghost-witness of it all, The clock brings its proofs; Moments melt into moments, Like notes of sad music, Like a white cerement.
From Sandhya Songs of Twilight by Mukerji, Dhan Gopal
Wrapper by wrapper he undid, cerement on cerement, till both Leonora and I wondered when he would stop.
From He by Pollock, Walter Herries
Now is the grass all withered up and dead, And shrouded in its cerement of the snow; Now the enfeebled Sun goes soon to bed, And rises late and carries his head low.
From Sonnets and Other Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.
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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