sheathe

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Architect Daniel Huntington’s Hotel Piedmont even went so far as to use a large quantity of art tile from the Malibu Tile Company to sheathe the street-level facades.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023

Most migraine researchers think that the pain of an attack is generated by increased firing of the trigeminal nerves, which carry sensory information from the face and the meninges that sheathe the brain.

From Nature • Oct. 13, 2020

Others rely on a system that can sheathe a painting with a hard surface on command—useful both for security and to protect the art when residents are away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2015

Ma compounds that mistake by proposing to sheathe his mountain in blocks of whitish-gray stone or a fancy form of concrete, not the sleek metal skins with which he's draped his previous museums.

From Chicago Tribune • Nov. 6, 2014

Jason wasn’t quite sure whether to sheathe his sword.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan