cloak
Example Sentences
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“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Where there was once an insistence on an impersonal space, there is now an acknowledgment that the therapist does not have to cloak their identity in a benign anonymity.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
“A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen,” wrote William Soutar, a Scottish poet and diarist, in 1934.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Chanting can then be heard in the background as clips show Princess Irulan removing the hood of her cloak.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
It was strange not to feel the weight of his cloak on his shoulders as he strode back and forth.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing cloak
The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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