wreathe
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But if she and her wreathe of shadow-selves are looking for labels, “writer” suits them all just fine.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2017
Two bizarre plotlines wreathe around each other in “The Dark Room.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2017
About 1,300 active satellites wreathe the globe in a crowded nest of orbits, providing worldwide communications, GPS navigation, weather forecasting and planetary surveillance.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2015
His bald head is radiant, his skull capacious, and the black hair at his temples resembles nothing so much as the laurel leaves that used to wreathe the heads of victorious Roman generals.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 16, 2012
Even at her age she still feels the urge to wreathe herself in flowers.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
"What we commemorate, what we celebrate, what public displays we make, where we place wreathes – the president does have that ability to signal what he thinks is important," he added.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025
On a recent day, the sobbing relatives of a steelworker and his factory colleagues stood outside a cathedral with wreathes of flowers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2022
"It has come up before that the wreathes themselves are purchased from a related entity," he said.
From Fox News ● Dec. 14, 2021
Stockings hang, wreathes festoon, toy soldiers stand at attention.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2016
Scattered around it were faded wreathes and crushed bouquets of plastic flowers, which made the place seem even sadder.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Jesus's first goal since January 1 left Arteta wreathed in smiles and Watkins' close-range strike in stoppage-time couldn't stop Arsenal revelling in their statement victory.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
Mr. Chen shows the family trundling in a horse-drawn cart toward forbidding mountains wreathed in mist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
But though William is clearly recognizable through the window, the figure beside him is wreathed in shadow and turned away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
Their paws are wreathed in luxuriant tufts of fur that keep them from sinking in deep snow.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
Somehow, the entire island had disappeared, vanished into the mist that wreathed it.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
The latter is completely concealed in a May-bush, wears a wooden crown wreathen with flowers, and carries a wooden sword.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
And over the heads of the twain did hover winged Cupids and watched them laughingly, whiles fair dames and their gallants, their brows wreathen with flowers, footed it on the lush grass.
From The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson
He got up and pointed out the window to somewhere hidden in the gray clouds wreathing the mountains overlooking Kfar Chouba.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
The peculiar iron rain happens because one side of the planet perpetually faces its parent star, wreathing one side of the planet in eternal daylight.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2020
Her tunes scatter and dance, changing harmonies often and wreathing themselves around her prolix vocals.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2017
It is just one of three fires wreathing parts of the Golden State in smoke.
From Economist ● Aug. 18, 2016
Grinning skeletons in Greek armor crowded around me, draping me with silk robes, wreathing my head with laurels that smoked with Chimera poison, burning into my scalp.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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