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shroud

[shroud] / ʃraʊd /


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Now, during high marmot season between May and July, blue, green and beige tarps shroud most cars at Mineral King, which sits below jagged Sierra Nevada peaks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

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

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

To each shroud he attached a note in red: “This shroud must not be opened under any circumstances.”

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 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

Babou stopped in front of the house, but the cloud of smoke kept going, enveloping the minivan in a black shroud before dissipating into a thin trail of intermittent puffs.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

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

Mystery still shrouds Zhang’s escape in July, following a late night court hearing in Mexico City when a judge unexpectedly granted him house arrest.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

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

From BBC Jul. 12, 2025

Yet despair shrouds Vuong’s characters, immigrants and other outsiders for whom the American Dream isn’t an inkling.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2025

A thin sheet of snow covered them like shrouds.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

"Our experiment provided the first empirical demonstration of a process that had previously been shrouded in controversy," Larrea summarizes.

From Science Daily Sep. 5, 2026

Illuminated by her signature scarlet red clothing and tastefully shrouded in sheets, the soft expression on her face was inspired by Raphael’s “La Fornarina.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

The community of Korumburra, where the victims were beloved figures, became shrouded in grief.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

A collaged print by Liu Shiyuan presents a dizzying array of images—fruit, bees, jellyfish, shrouded figures, fabric samples—that is more disorienting than anything else.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

For a moment Fadi’s fear and embarrassment melted away as the taxi was shrouded in wisps of fog rolling in from the bay.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

TORONTO—Hundreds of out-of-control wildfires are burning in Canada, shrouding skies there and the U.S. in an eerie yellow-gray haze and forcing the evacuation of dozens of communities.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 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

She wrote that the government seemed to be concealing key information from the court and shrouding data in this studiously ambiguous language.

From Slate Oct. 31, 2025

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

Although we spoke aloud after Papa said the first few words alone, an outer silence enveloped us all, shrouding us.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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