cerement

Example Sentences

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“Had not the singer of Wimpole Street said that they were binding up their hearts away from breaking with a cerement of the grave?”

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022

Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement.

From Time Magazine Archive

The best I have within me declares that the fleshly wrapping becomes at the end but a cumbering cerement; that through life, it is a spirit-vault.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar

There was another darkness about her, thicker than the mere night, like a black cerement dropping over her soul.

From Wild Oranges by Hergesheimer, Joseph

This was at once both good and bad for the little Emperor, good because it made the bursting of his cerement easy, bad because it made the drying of his wings slow.

From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas