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enshroud

[en-shraud] / ɛnˈʃraʊd /


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Here are five myths that have helped enshroud him.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019

I find these treasures littering the back of the refrigerator, looking like crumpled silver cat toys, and wonder why it was necessary to enshroud this bite of food instead of just, you know, eating it.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2018

The same is almost possible these days in New York, where more than 280 miles of scaffolding, some of it more than a decade old, now enshroud the perpetually unfinished cityscape.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017

During winter, the smoke from our fires and the mist from the lakes would mingle and enshroud our village.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2017

New memories continue to enshroud those old ones: the fading face of my mother, a name that once was mine—what the word Jewish meant.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Piece by piece, the scaffolding that enshrouds the site will come down over the course of 2024, in time for its planned Dec. 8 reopening to the public.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Reason four he enshrouds with disclaimers: that it is not his intention to tell “a sob story”, that “I don’t like people feeling sorry for me”.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2017

Actually, “Rogue One” is unusually dark, but only in the literal sense—its cinematography enshrouds the characters in a surprisingly murky depth of shadows.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2016

That subtlety enshrouds it in mystery: Scientists are busily determining what dark energy does, and they have yet to reach any consensus on what dark energy is.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2014

Down in the loop the blue-gray air enshrouds, As with a cyclops' cape, the man-made hills And towers of granite where the city crowds.

From Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters

While the planters have a past that is enshrouded in exploitation, their impact on Wales is still visible today.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

Commissioners have refused to reveal the identities of the front-runners — reflecting the secrecy that has enshrouded much of the the search process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

"If the latter is true, it tells us that they're of relatively low mass, low temperature, enshrouded in dust, or some combination of the three -- as is likely the case in MWC 758."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024

She was temporarily enshrouded in protective padding, adding a layer of mystery.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

From the outside I must look like a cocoon, a spook, face enshrouded like this, only the outlines visible, of nose, bandaged mouth, blind eyes.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Flying into southern Iraq in March, the irony felt as thick as the murk enshrouding the city of Basra below.

From Salon ● May 22, 2022

They have collaborated impressively on the illusions conjured by imaginations running wild, images populated by Botticelli paintings come to life, mutating floral landscapes and mist-covered oceans enshrouding dreamlike figures.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2021

Thankfully, summer crowds are mostly abated this time of year and visitors will be treated to a show of brilliant fall foliage enshrouding the pristine mountain lake.

From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021

He began putting in volunteer shifts of up to 20 hours transporting bodies, putting them in freezers in the funeral home, washing and enshrouding them in white cloth and taking them to cemeteries for burial.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2021

It was dense, however; dense as if it were enshrouding the Grand Banks, and of the same impenetrable, milky consistency.

From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield


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