cloak
Example Sentences
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“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
“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
He pointed to a patch of fading mushrooms that looked as if they’d dropped their color on the ground like a cloak.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing cloak
The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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