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enshroud

[en-shraud] / ɛnˈʃraʊd /


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Here are five myths that have helped enshroud him.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019

I find these treasures littering the back of the refrigerator, looking like crumpled silver cat toys, and wonder why it was necessary to enshroud this bite of food instead of just, you know, eating it.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2018

During winter, the smoke from our fires and the mist from the lakes would mingle and enshroud our village.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2017

Temple Studios, as this multilevel maze is being called, is strictly a land of shadows, the thick, inky kind that enshroud nightmares.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2013

New memories continue to enshroud those old ones: the fading face of my mother, a name that once was mine—what the word Jewish meant.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Piece by piece, the scaffolding that enshrouds the site will come down over the course of 2024, in time for its planned Dec. 8 reopening to the public.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Reason four he enshrouds with disclaimers: that it is not his intention to tell “a sob story”, that “I don’t like people feeling sorry for me”.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2017

Actually, “Rogue One” is unusually dark, but only in the literal sense—its cinematography enshrouds the characters in a surprisingly murky depth of shadows.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2016

That subtlety enshrouds it in mystery: Scientists are busily determining what dark energy does, and they have yet to reach any consensus on what dark energy is.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2014

With a view to afford a glimpse of the Reality through the dense veil that enshrouds the mysteries of this Science of Sciences, an article, the Elixir of Life, was written.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

California’s Central Valley has been enshrouded in mist for more than a week thanks to the area’s infamous Tule fog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

With their country enshrouded in trauma amid the ongoing war with Russia, a team hauled together shone brightly at a sun-drenched Hampden.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025

In addition to giving off optical and X-ray bursts, TDEs can generate infrared radiation, particularly in "dusty" galaxies, where a central black hole is enshrouded with galactic debris.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

To his great discredit, he enshrouded this transition in bigotry, buffoonery and corruption.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2022

A spectral fog enshrouded the island, blanking it from view, and we broke from rowing to watch it fade.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Flying into southern Iraq in March, the irony felt as thick as the murk enshrouding the city of Basra below.

From Salon ● May 22, 2022

They have collaborated impressively on the illusions conjured by imaginations running wild, images populated by Botticelli paintings come to life, mutating floral landscapes and mist-covered oceans enshrouding dreamlike figures.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2021

Thankfully, summer crowds are mostly abated this time of year and visitors will be treated to a show of brilliant fall foliage enshrouding the pristine mountain lake.

From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021

He began putting in volunteer shifts of up to 20 hours transporting bodies, putting them in freezers in the funeral home, washing and enshrouding them in white cloth and taking them to cemeteries for burial.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2021

He thought of the eternal secrecy surrounding space travel; of the reinforced hush-hush enshrouding Company ships.

From The Hell Ship by Raymond Alfred Palmer


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