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Example sentences for "shrouding"

Lexicographically close words:
shrivels; shriven; shroff; shroud; shrouded; shrouds; shrowd; shrowded; shrub; shrubberies
  1. With his arm he clasped her; he leaned above her, shrouding her in his love as in an everlasting benison.

  2. Forgotten now the fact that, save for the shrouding of her messy hair, she stood naked.

  3. With one quick gesture he swept away the shrouding tangle of webs, spiders, and dead flies that obscured the window.

  4. There came no answer but the shrouding fogs.

  5. There, deep beneath our sight and these high thrones, They wander through the air and restlessly Move to and fro, all blind and overcast With shrouding clouds, and horribly deformed.

  6. All blind and overcast With shrouding mists, and horribly deformed.

  7. If the student feels that there is an impenetrable mystery shrouding the truth in this remarkable case, the Breton peasant was troubled with no such doubts.

  8. And that warrior of immeasurable soul, shooting from his bow arrows furnished with golden wings, covered all sides, shrouding the very light of the sun.

  9. Discharged by my light hands, these keen-edged arrows furnished with golden wings shall cover Partha all over, like locusts shrouding a tree.

  10. The forest was as still as night, and looked very strange with the white aisles lined by black tree trunks and the gray fog shrouding the tree-tops.

  11. Soon a blue, windy haze, shrouding the giant pines ahead, caused Bill to change his course.

  12. They embraced there in the shrouding darkness, the tears flowing.

  13. At last a shell burst under one of the guns, shrouding it and the gunners in a cloud of mingled smoke and mud.

  14. Then shrouding his sad visage from the sight, Flew o'er the cloud-dressed Alps to solitude and night.

  15. But as she raised her face to his, the shrouding mantle fell away, and he found himself staring down into the exultant face and bright, dark eyes of a girl he had never seen before.

  16. With a deep-drawn sigh of relief she had snuggled back against the cushioned seat, and now she flung off the shrouding mantle and looked up to meet his gaze with a smile of excited triumph.

  17. Whilst engaged in the last deed of charity, the shrouding of a dead body, a monk did also engage with a nun in the deeds of the flesh, and made her big with child.

  18. The Monk Conversing with the Nun while Shrouding a Dead Body.

  19. The Monk Conversing with the Nun while Shrouding a Dead Body] [The Monk Conversing with the Nun while Shrouding a Dead Body] [Illustration: 225.

  20. Amid all the wreck of empires, nothing ever spoke so forcibly the world's mutations, as this immense forest, shrouding what was once a great city.

  21. The serape shrouding them hung in the right direction--not as regarded the laws of gravity, but the attitude of the wearer.

  22. Shrouding each other in that dreadful combat with showers of arrows, O king, they once more pierced each other with keen shafts, sped from bows drawn to their fullest stretch.

  23. Shrouding every side, in that battle with his arrowy downpours, that valiant hero, O monarch, fearlessly slew a large number of thy troops.

  24. Filled with wrath, they displayed diverse kinds of weapons and entirely shrouded Partha with their shafts like the clouds shrouding the sun.

  25. Gold-winged arrows, whetted on stone and engraved with Bhima's name shrouded Drona's son, like gathering masses of clouds shrouding the sun.

  26. Like the clouds shrouding the sun, he quickly made the mighty-armed Drona invisible in that battle by means of his arrowy showers.

  27. I shall, therefore, resort to Yoga for shrouding the sun.

  28. Shrouding each other with shafts, each stayed before the other in that battle.

  29. Those heroes, displaying celestial and mighty weapons, covered Bhima with shafts, like clouds shrouding the risen sun.

  30. She dropped the shrouding blanket from her shoulders, and he saw her now in the garb of the waif of the Skeets.

  31. The driver did not reply to his delighted hail, but before he had time to wonder at that silence some one struggled out of the folds of a shrouding blanket and sprang from the sled.

  32. When he came opposite to his own closed, uninhabited house, he could see by straining his eyes the dusky shadow of the willow trees shrouding the Skinner home.

  33. Something in her tones, some dejection in the bowed head brought the man's hand from the shrouding curls.

  34. She was conscious of the gyrations of Andy Bishop curled in the straw under her slender body, and she knew her curls were shrouding a face distorted with anxiety.

  35. The General sat down the moment he was alone--and shrouding his forehead, lost himself in painful thought.

  36. A sob broke upon her pale lips--the strength left her limbs--and she fell down before him, shrouding her agony with both hands.

  37. Quicker than thought she darted to the door over which still swung the shrouding blanket.

  38. Already the shadows are lengthening around us, and shrouding in their darkness every object in the Place.

  39. A smile of exultation passed over the Pagan's countenance, as he perceived the shrouding and welcome thickness of the atmosphere.

  40. She turned again, almost direct for the cairn; the smoke was now shrouding it.

  41. They had muffled their lanterns about with coats and handkerchiefs, and the shrouding of one had been done with a spotted neckerchief that showed dabbled with a dusky pattern.

  42. She could nurse the living, but dreaded the thought of shrouding the dead.

  43. There is a dusky vein of mystery shrouding her, which favors my idea of her as representing the universe.

  44. And shrouding himself closer in his wrapping mantle, he walked rapidly on till he reached a side entrance into the gardens, which stretched for many acres around Don Ferdinand's mansion.

  45. The heat was so oppressive that the streets were actually deserted--even the artisans had closed their stores; darkness had fallen suddenly, shrouding the beautiful twilight peculiar to Spain as with a pall.

  46. With an uncontrollable impulse, Marie had followed the example of almost every female in Segovia, and, wrapt in her shrouding veil, had stationed herself, with some attendants at a casement overlooking the long line of march.

  47. Ah, wretch, thy father and lady mother shall not close thine eyes in death, but birds that eat flesh raw shall tear thee, shrouding thee in the multitude of their wings.

  48. Very soon there was a step upon the stairs, which made the woman spring to her feet and throw aside the mantle in which she had been shrouding her face.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrouding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    coating; covering; eclipse; envelopment; hiding; incrustation; occultation; sheathing; shielding; upholstery; wrapping