Sentence examples for a pall of ash from inspiring English sources
Additional pyroclastic flows and rains of ash followed, adding at least another 9 feet of debris and preserving in a pall of ash the bodies of the inhabitants who perished while taking shelter in their houses or trying to escape toward the coast or by the roads leading to Stabiae or Nuceria.
"That's how the year goes out, in a puff of smoke, a pall of human ash".
A huge volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 (far more powerful than Krakatoa would be 68 years later) sent a pall of volcanic ash across the Northern Hemisphere, bringing so much cold weather and torrential rain to Europe that 1816 was nicknamed "the Year Without a Summer".
The final passages of the book are an eerie imagining of the Earth without mankind: A wind came across the ocean, sweeping with it a pall of fine white ash.
A year ago the restaurant closed for good, and a pall of gloom fell on the neighbourhood.
A pall of dogmatism will settle over the right.
A pall of dust and smoke was rising.
The house is wrapped in a pall of gloom.
Inside the Cottage, a pall of smoke welcomes drinkers.
A pall of tear gas hangs over Tahrir Square.
Many journalists have lived under a pall of apprehension.
