cloak

Example Sentences

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“A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen,” wrote William Soutar, a Scottish poet and diarist, in 1934.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The smog season regularly did a number on our mile-high mountains, wrapping them in a brown cloak of invisibility until wind and rain swept the sludge away.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Miller said that India's cloak of invincibility had been removed and now South Africa knew "that they are beatable".

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Riona said: "She wanted land to build a church and she had a cloak and it grew all over the land but the king didn't want her to have the land."

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026

Once outside, she huddled in her borrowed cloak and stamped her feet against the chill, first the right foot, then the left.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood