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

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)

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

The moonlight gleamed on the high-pitched red roof, and drenched the garden in whiteness, but the mist which rose from the waters of the moat swathed the walls of the house like a cerement.

From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)