Sentence examples for its shrouds from inspiring English sources

It had capsized after the wind snapped one of its shrouds, the wires that support the mast.

(He cannibalized the other, functional reserve parachute, possibly using its shrouds to tie the money bag shut, and to secure the bag to his body as witnessed by Mucklow. ) The FBI stressed that inclusion of the dummy reserve parachute, one of four obtained in haste from a Seattle skydiving school, was accidental.

From its shrouded vantage point, it reveals the place in all its voluptuous, all-pervasive glory.

A corpse might appear to have chewed through its shroud because of corrosive fluids it spewed as it decayed, perhaps frightening gravediggers into thinking it was a vampire.

It was Yet the nightmare cast its shroud in the guise of a contagion of a deer-in-the-headlights paralysis.My colleague, too, referred to Orwell's rules, suggesting that bad writing of this (and other) kinds could be avoided by following them.

Members of the B Reactor Museum Association recall its shroud of secrecy in the 1940's.

New York, "like the victim of an outrage, goes about freeing itself of its shroud," he wrote.

No piece was easy, but each fell finished, in its shroud of print, into a book-shaped hole.

There were unfinished wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and fear that the earth was overcooking in its shroud of greenhouse gases.

Venus, hidden beneath its shroud of cloud, where web-footed natives hunted dinosaurs through fetid, steaming swamps.

When at last the comedy of love's confusions begins to animate the proceedings, the production casts off its shroud and begins to shake a leg.