shroud
Example Sentences
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They spin a variety of amazing webs, from the typical orb web, with its hub-and-spoke pattern, to funnel-like tube webs and sheet webs that can drape over an entire landscape like a shroud.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
If no one came to identify her, the team would prepare a clean white shroud, wash her according to Muslim custom and bury her nearby.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
And she has gold lozenges painted all around the perimeter of her shroud, done tastefully, without obvious ostentation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Grief hangs like a shroud in the house, while Njoki's chair sits empty.
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025
All of this in his mind, of course, as he tossed in his bed, the sheet twisted around him like a shroud, suffocatingly.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
Vocabulary lists containing shroud
"Beowulf," Vocabulary from the epic poem
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act IV
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Beowulf: A New Telling
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