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enshroud

[en-shroud] / ɛnˈʃraʊd /


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Actual records of the doctors’ deliberations on Lhermitte’s case are unlikely to be disclosed, given privacy rules that enshroud the Belgian system.

From Washington Post Mar. 8, 2023

Here are five myths that have helped enshroud him.

From Washington Post Oct. 11, 2019

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

Shearwaters skim the ramparts; sleeves of vapor enshroud the steeple.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

There is a white mist upon the mountain and a sea fog enshrouds the shipping in the harbour: everywhere it is cold, colourless and damp.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus

With their country enshrouded in trauma amid the ongoing war with Russia, a team hauled together shone brightly at a sun-drenched Hampden.

From BBC Oct. 12, 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

In addition to giving off optical and X-ray bursts, TDEs can generate infrared radiation, particularly in "dusty" galaxies, where a central black hole is enshrouded with galactic debris.

From Science Daily Jan. 29, 2024

But then … fog enshrouded the stage and a video played on a giant screen, revealing the avatars, which looked like something from a video game, promising “a new era begins.”

From Seattle Times Dec. 3, 2023

A spectral fog enshrouded the island, blanking it from view, and we broke from rowing to watch it fade.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

Stony-eyed, silent, under this second blow, she stared forth upon the enshrouding mist, as though to pierce its dark folds and see—what?

From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram




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