Sentence examples for a sheer veil from inspiring English sources

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Mr. Anastassiades's contributions included an oak lamppost that, like his antisocial light, would illuminate only silence, and a white column with a concave bowl at the top that upon inspection brimmed over with a sheer veil of water; a shorter column, which served as a stool, sat to its side: a contemplative cascade presented as a classical take on watching television.

The bride, wearing large diamond earrings, a sheer veil and a cream-colored Amsale dress, and the bridegroom, in a black Armani dinner jacket, walked down the aisle in a shower of rose petals until everyone drifted out of the church into a steady rain.

She's pictured draped in a sheer veil, satin undergarments and surrounded by blooming flowers as she holds her flawless belly.

But a new romanticism brought glazed tunics in subtle powder colors and the full-on sweetness of a sheer veiling scattered with velvet bows like a storm of honey bees.

There's a policeman in the upper left corner and a woman in a pillbox hat and sheer veil looking sideways and grinning mightily for no apparent reason in the lower right.

Three flower girls dropped white rose petals down the aisle before the bride entered, wearing a sheer ivory veil that matched the snug bodice of her strapless gown.

"La Nuit" ("The Night"), a sensuous life-size painting of a curvy female nude partly draped in a sheer black veil, by the 19th-century French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau, hangs in the back of the coatroom.

Wearing a sheer burgundy veil with jewels rattling from her chest and hips, she turned away from the audience and dropped suddenly onto her back, drawing attention to her stomach with dramatic, isolated pulses.

Joyce Jolley, 76, a retired dental hygienist from Seattle, bought the most severe kind to take home, including a head covering with only an eye-slit opening and a sheer black veil to cover that — more than what Saudi women are required to wear.

Mrs. Roosevelt wore short, sheer veil, arranged bonnet‐like on her long blond hair, and a gown with long, fitted sheer sleeves crisscrossed with the same design as that on the gown.