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

Wrapper by wrapper he undid, cerement on cerement, till both Leonora and I wondered when he would stop.

From He by Pollock, Walter Herries

Then the corpse, covered by a long cerement, was tenderly lifted up by six of the nearest kinfolk and borne towards the dark thing I have described.

From The Coming Race by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The moonlight gleamed on the high-pitched red roof, and drenched the garden in whiteness, but the mist which rose from the waters of the moat swathed the walls of the house like a cerement.

From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)