shroud
Example Sentences
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They spin a variety of amazing webs, from the typical orb web, with its hub-and-spoke pattern, to funnel-like tube webs and sheet webs that can drape over an entire landscape like a shroud.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
If no one came to identify her, the team would prepare a clean white shroud, wash her according to Muslim custom and bury her nearby.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Hidden beneath that thick acoustic engine shroud, the new high-output turbo assembly isn’t much to look at.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
“Our position is that the shroud offers evidence of the resurrection, but not proof,” said Nora Creech, a shroud scholar who helped organize the exhibit.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
But as I knelt, the mist seemed to ensnare my body like a sticky shroud, intent on dragging me down.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
Vocabulary lists containing shroud
"Beowulf," Vocabulary from the epic poem
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act IV
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Beowulf: A New Telling
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