Sentence examples for like a shawl from inspiring English sources

I could feel her all around me, like a shawl around my shoulders.

Outside, on the steps of the church, a man sat alone wearing a towel over his head, like a shawl.

A big man ran past us exultantly; he had wrapped himself in an American flag like a shawl.

I wanted to bring some job opportunities for women in the village, like a shawl knitting center or an anganwadi [day care] center.

As the dough emerged in a thin sheet, he wrapped it around his shoulders like a shawl, keeping it in one very long piece.

The middle part in your mother's hair accentuated the narrow length of her face; the end of her raw-silk sari was wrapped around her shoulders like a shawl.

But when she's not hitting the links, Barnes tends to dress up basic black with accents like jewelry, a shawl, or a splash of color.

Her Twitter feed combines reflections on trends to revealing expressions of her likes and dislikes (eg: "Would love a shawl just like the one that Mr Dawes Snr in Mary Poppins is wearing").

Her design, which fits comfortably around the neck like a scarf or a shawl, unfolds to create an instant area of privacy and mental focus, allowing wearers to rest without ever leaving the office.

I put my hand to my own hair, felt the lack of it, the chill, and in my ear a whisper, like the whisper of wool; a shawl around my head, a softness like lambswool: a forgetting.

Among them was the Chinese fringe tree (Chionanthus retusas), with its masses of little white blossoms covering its broad branches like a silken shawl.