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
Bodies are wrapped in a shroud of biodegradable material such as silk or wool before being placed in a pressurised chamber with hot water and chemicals, speeding up decomposition.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 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
I discover two bedrooms, both under a thick layer of dust, one with a figure lying under a cobwebby shroud on the bed.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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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