cloak
Example Sentences
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Turning to his anxious helmsman, Pericles took his cloak and held it in front of the man’s eyes, asking if this made him frightened.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 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
"The night the cloak came off," blazed a headline in the Indian Express newspaper.
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
Exhausted by self-pity, and swaddled tightly in her cloak like an infant, Penelope fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing cloak
The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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