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[shroud] / ʃraʊd /


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Like a giant black shroud, it hung over the Moscow skyline.

From BBC Jun. 20, 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

And she has gold lozenges painted all around the perimeter of her shroud, done tastefully, without obvious ostentation.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

The final room of the exhibit is designed for reflection and includes a life-sized bronze statue of Jesus created by Italian artist Luigi Enzo Matte, according to the dimensions of the image on the shroud.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2025

We found her unraveling the splendid shroud, and then she had to finish, willy nilly— finish, and show the big loom woven tight from beam to beam with cloth.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The upgrade includes tarted up air-inlet shrouds on the side and louvered panels in the front wings, notionally to help evacuate air pressure at high speed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Dozens of relatives and mourners gathered at Nasser Hospital, where the bodies of some of those killed were laid out in white shrouds.

From Barron's Feb. 15, 2026

The production design by Tamara Deverell is superb as are the costumes by Kate Hawley, who shrouds Goth in dramatic chiffon layers and dresses laced to highlight her vertebrae.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2025

The news agency also reported seeing bodies wrapped in white shrouds at Nasser hospital.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2025

None of them could see the shrouds or the shadow creature.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

From afar, the Sagrada Família, shrouded in mist, appears otherworldly.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Joe Biden's 2023 visit to Ukraine was also shrouded in strict secrecy during a long journey by plane and train, though he was accompanied by a reporter and photographer.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

There’s something very powerful there: She’s demystifying a process that can still be shrouded in unnecessary secrecy, and making a choice many women have at least considered.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

I'd seen photos of specimens, but perhaps the details of just where exactly they came from, or what they looked like when they were found was kind of shrouded in secrecy.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

In the other room, Lev leaned over the table, lighting a candle he had placed at the head of the shrouded body.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Then Levi’s went further, shrouding real-life signs at stores across the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

And that patience was tested from the off on Thursday with low-lying cloud and fog shrouding the course.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

Even then, Reagan was helped greatly by the restive climate stemming from the Watts riots, widespread campus unrest and voter fatigue shrouding the incumbent, Jerry Brown’s father, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 9, 2025

There is, however, a palpable disconnect between the jest shrouding the account in these posts and the reception evident in the comment sections.

From Slate Feb. 27, 2024

Warm vapors rose from the earth, shrouding the trees in their moist breath, creeping up the walls to draw grey curtains across the watching windows.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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