Sentence examples for a cowl from inspiring English sources

It depicts a tall, glowering figure, in a cowl, with a book between his manacled hands.

The shop's owner is a beaked old man with a gray hairline like a cowl slipping off his head.

He's wearing his green gear and carrying a bat, but it might as well be a cowl and a scythe.

I tried on a smoky brown, flared coat with a cowl neck and wobbling zipper that Bea Arthur might wear in "The Matrix IV" ($4,214).

With a cowl on top it wasn't, of course, cheap, but it was a third of what we would have paid.

Hall Moran, wearing a red dress with a cowl neck over bluejeans, sat on a folding chair, with a loose-leaf binder open on her lap.

22. SIA SHIN in a cowl-back dress with train.; April 23: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston had a rare benefit lunch in its tapestry-music room; nearly 200 guests attended, raising money for the museum's landscaping.

What archives?" "Out of respect for a designer, I like to keep certain things that I don't wear," I explained, holding up a cowl-neck top by Isaac Mizrahi from the early 90's.

Her get-up is a cross between Willy Wonka and Roxy Music-era Brian Eno, but then a cowl-and-cape combo is a real mood killer, and who has room in New York to carry a scythe?

She is from Los Angeles, and the influence of her native city is apparent in the adorned messiness of her designs: denim shorts with corset crisscrossing; a cowl-back dress with beaded fringe that hung past the hem like dangling twine.

(For an excellent depiction of the romance of moon journeys, and romance within a journey, see Fritz Lang's "Frau im Mond," the 1929 silent film that introduced the device of the backward countdown. One appealing part of Lang's vision is that the outfit one wears to go to the moon includes a cowl-neck sweater).