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wreathe

[reeth] / rið /












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But if she and her wreathe of shadow-selves are looking for labels, “writer” suits them all just fine.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2017

Two bizarre plotlines wreathe around each other in “The Dark Room.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2017

About 1,300 active satellites wreathe the globe in a crowded nest of orbits, providing worldwide communications, GPS navigation, weather forecasting and planetary surveillance.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2015

His bald head is radiant, his skull capacious, and the black hair at his temples resembles nothing so much as the laurel leaves that used to wreathe the heads of victorious Roman generals.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 16, 2012

Even at her age she still feels the urge to wreathe herself in flowers.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Several wreathes were completely burnt in the fire and Edinburgh's Stone of Remembrance blackened with soot.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2022

"It has come up before that the wreathes themselves are purchased from a related entity," he said.

From Fox News ● Dec. 14, 2021

There also are ovals, tubes, spirals and two variations on the cagelike sphere known as a Buckyball: Shanti Norris juxtaposes solid and empty, and Olivia Morrow wreathes band-saw blades in a tense equilibrium.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2017

There was the Instagram tribute, a picture of wreathes in front of the building named for Tillman, “honoring” the victims of the shooting in the Charleston church.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2015

Scattered around it were faded wreathes and crushed bouquets of plastic flowers, which made the place seem even sadder.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Jesus's first goal since January 1 left Arteta wreathed in smiles and Watkins' close-range strike in stoppage-time couldn't stop Arsenal revelling in their statement victory.

From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025

Mr. Chen shows the family trundling in a horse-drawn cart toward forbidding mountains wreathed in mist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

The crosses throughout a bizarre realm wreathed in shadow mark sites where he has shed his corporeal flesh.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

But though William is clearly recognizable through the window, the figure beside him is wreathed in shadow and turned away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

Now he could see: masses of gray rock wreathed in smoke, gray men moving.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

The latter is completely concealed in a May-bush, wears a wooden crown wreathen with flowers, and carries a wooden sword.

From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

And over the heads of the twain did hover winged Cupids and watched them laughingly, whiles fair dames and their gallants, their brows wreathen with flowers, footed it on the lush grass.

From The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson

Some people nearby seemed unconcerned, going about their business with barely a glance at the smoke wreathing the mine’s tower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

We went south to Glenwood Springs and spent hours splashing in the hot mineral water, the steam wreathing our heads, the crystalline January day all around us.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2018

Her tunes scatter and dance, changing harmonies often and wreathing themselves around her prolix vocals.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2017

It is just one of three fires wreathing parts of the Golden State in smoke.

From Economist ● Aug. 18, 2016

Grinning skeletons in Greek armor crowded around me, draping me with silk robes, wreathing my head with laurels that smoked with Chimera poison, burning into my scalp.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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