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Example sentences for "enshrouded"

Lexicographically close words:
enshrine; enshrined; enshrines; enshrining; enshroud; enshrouding; ensi; ensiform; ensign; ensigncy
  1. He had not found the slightest relief from the embarrassing ignorance that enshrouded him.

  2. And yet, despite the mystery which enshrouded it, there was a charm, a fascination, he could not deny.

  3. It is all the fault of little Mannanan, our ancient Manx magician, who enshrouded our island in mist.

  4. You see it from end to end, and from water's edge to topmost peak, often enshrouded in mists, a dim ghost on a grey sea; sometimes purple against the setting sun.

  5. Of the hundred-odd volunteers, who were supposed to constitute the company, little could be learned because of the veil of secrecy which had from the very beginning enshrouded the whole movement.

  6. A meditative silence enshrouded her as she lay listless, unconcerned to all appearances, as to her whereabouts or destination.

  7. In short, the whole affair was enshrouded in the deepest mystery.

  8. He said something to this man, and then they both staggered away forward and I lost sight of them in the deep shadows that enshrouded the fore-part of the ship.

  9. A narrow vein of land fog, put in motion by some local current in shore, had been wafted out on to the water, and completely enshrouded her from their view.

  10. We used to arrive each night at our destination enshrouded in a film of the same, and there was difficulty amongst the passengers in claiming their small hand-baggage from amongst a pile of dust-smothered luggage.

  11. Sometimes for a moment we were so enshrouded as to be invisible to each other, and then as it cleared off, and we drew breath freely again, mouth and nostril were full of the fine sand which we tasted and smelt.

  12. The strange sinister-looking individual whose identity was enshrouded in mystery, and with whom she appeared to be on such intimate terms, had aroused in my heart fresh suspicions that I had been duped.

  13. It was the work of the rushing gust--but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline of Usher.

  14. There was reflected a pair of hands, red and coarsened with rough work, a round face, shiny and swollen with crying, and a small round figure enshrouded in masses of hair falling in thick waves to within an inch or two of the knees.

  15. Walter dreaded a storm, fearing it would shut him up with the family without escape; but at last the sun so enshrouded itself in gloom that he was compelled to return.

  16. It seemed to swallow her up, and become a type of the mystery and fate that enshrouded the forlorn creature.

  17. So successful was he with his experiment that the sea of ice on the one hand, and the braeland on the other, seemed enshrouded in gloom.

  18. It will be hours ere our eyes can be restored, and long before then the darkness of night will have enshrouded us.

  19. There stood near it a tall, angular figure, head enshrouded in an enormous sunbonnet; a personality which it seemed to me I recognized.

  20. Only partially enshrouded in darkness, it might betray her.

  21. Ten, twenty, thirty, perhaps forty darkly enshrouded heads peered out from the shadows.

  22. Whether these were men or women, monks, nuns or devils, she could not tell, so closely were they enshrouded in robes or coats of black cloth.

  23. He pleaded the tragic death of his father and the uncertainty that still enshrouded the fate of Dolores and of Coursegol as reasons for delay; and Antoinette consented.

  24. The report rolled out like thunder upon the heavy mist-enshrouded atmosphere.

  25. Still Nina's mind was enshrouded in as deep a gloom as ever, and Dr.

  26. For years he had groped in a darkness deeper, more hopeless than that which enshrouded the blind man, and in all that time there had shone upon his pathway not a single ray of daylight.

  27. All at once a puff of wind brushed aside the white clinging wreaths of vapor that had so long enshrouded them.

  28. He knocked loudly, and the echo sounded almost like thunder in the quiet night- enshrouded valley.

  29. The hut stands sufficiently high for it to be always enshrouded when a mist comes on, and it may then be difficult to strike.

  30. Enshrouded by dark yews, and with the old, weatherworn tower soaring overhead, this porch makes an excellent study for the artist's pencil.

  31. Standing thus alone, enshrouded by trees, under the lee of the sheltering hill, there is something pensive in the attitude of this ancient house of prayer; as though the place were lost in dreams of 'the days that are no more.

  32. The hero, whose birth is enshrouded in mystery, the restless ghost groaning for the vindication of rights, the historical background, the archaic spelling of the challenge, are all ineffective fumblings towards the romantic.

  33. The early light of successive summer mornings falling into the sleeping-room of Edward Macleod seemed to mock the heavy gloom which perpetually enshrouded his heart.

  34. At the present moment he had no thought, no eyes, for anything save a mist-enshrouded speck far off across the waters of Lake Ontario.

  35. They were to approach at night under their own steam, enshrouded in artificial fog, gain an entrance, if possible, and then sink themselves in the fairways of the two harbours.

  36. The secret lay with the British Navy, and the very mystery that enshrouded the vanished unterseebooten added to the terror of the crews of those boats that had hitherto escaped destruction.

  37. Shoreward the land was enshrouded in darkness, not a light being visible.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enshrouded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.