Sentence examples for heavy pall from inspiring English sources

He tried to lighten the heavy pall that hung over his news conference.

What has befallen the five booksellers has cast a heavy pall across the industry in Hong Kong.

Not that the hosts -- and assorted hotel employees and cheerfully gawking tourists in bathing suits and snorkeling masks -- did not try to lift the heavy pall of tension and suspicion.

Adding to the confusion was the fact that neither side had standard uniforms; unable to see more than a few feet through the heavy pall of smoke and uncertain who was in front of them, men from both sides fired on their fellow soldiers.

The reduced winds, which eased to less than 20 miles an hour today after gusting at more than 60 miles an hour on Thursday, helped firefighters today, but they also allowed a heavy pall of grayish smoke to descend over hundreds of square miles.

As dusk approached today, an air of desperation crept in with the lighting of huge trenches of heavy oil at places around the perimeter of the city, with the aim of casting a heavy pall of smoke into the air to obscure targets from American pilots.

In recent days the pall of heavy smoke over the Bay Area has served as a constant reminder of the tragic, destructive fires enveloping communities across our state.

Bright sunlight poked through a pall of heavy black smoke from a ring of oil trenches that were set afire around the city on Saturday, and still burning today, apparently to try and blind attacking aircraft and missiles.

The air was heavy with a grayish-yellowish pall of smoke from the snowmobiles' exhaust.

Already, the government's heavy hand has cast a pall over private Web ventures, which are relying on foreign investment to survive.

Only when accompanied by a pall of haze from heavy concentrations of fine particulate matter does ozone acquire a "marker". Beyond the pockets of haze over some of Connecticut's largest population centers, the entire state might resemble Los Angeles in the summer if mountains blocked the outward air flow as they do in California.