cloak

Example Sentences

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“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

The smog season regularly did a number on our mile-high mountains, wrapping them in a brown cloak of invisibility until wind and rain swept the sludge away.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Miller said that India's cloak of invincibility had been removed and now South Africa knew "that they are beatable".

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Most of those selected to wear the killer’s cloak in “The Traitors” come to this conclusion, but not as woefully as Rausch.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

Clare took his cloak from where it had been drying beside the hearth and swung it around his neck, drawing the hood low.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman