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 night the cloak came off," blazed a headline in the Indian Express newspaper.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
Riona said: "She wanted land to build a church and she had a cloak and it grew all over the land but the king didn't want her to have the land."
From BBC • Jan. 31, 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
He drew his black cloak snugly around, as if making himself into a shadow.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing cloak
The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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