Example Sentences

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Shrouding that fun, however, was a palpable and ominous silence.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2022

Shrouding these fears of graduating medical school without learning everything were the questions virtually everyone in the hospital was worried about: would I catch the coronavirus?

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2021

Shrouding Danaë’s upper face in shadow, Titian emphasizes the upturned whites of her eyes, amplifying the ambivalence around the question of her will.

From Washington Post

Hope daily weaves fresh roses for his brow, Shrouding the grim and ghastly phantom, Death, Beneath her soft and rainbow-tinted wings.

From Enthusiasm and Other Poems by Moodie, Susanna

Shrouding her features she sank back from observation.

From The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow by Grant, Robert