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

Three cold, bright moons have marched and wheeled;     And the white cerement that revealed     A Figure stretched upon a Shield,   Is turned to verdure; and the Land is now one mighty battle-field.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit by Carman, Bliss

And then again I saw it lying very quietly in the clutch of a bitter winter—an awful hush upon it, and the white cerement of the snow flung across its face.

From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.

They were moving slowly; they were carrying something into the house—something in a white covering that hung heavily as a cerement in the heavy air.

From At Large by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)