Sentence examples for sheathed from inspiring English sources

These devices, which were intended to relieve the monotony of sun-dried brick or mud plaster, include a huge copper-sheathed lintel, with animal figures modeled partly in the round; wooden columns sheathed in a patterned mosaic of coloured stone or shell; and bands of copper-sheathed bulls and lions, modeled in relief but with projecting heads.

Back within the well-shuttered Carrera and gathering in its imposing reception area sheathed in black glass, Pinochet's many moneyed supporters toasted him with champagne, and his three fellow members of the junta from the navy, air force and gendarmerie.

The rebels' ringleaders sheathed their weapons.In truth, they had little choice.

Congress happily pays for weapons but despises weaselly diplomats and woolly development aid, yet they are vital to ensuring that arms stay sheathed.

Above him the mountain is sheathed in cloud.

A book of brawny prose sheathed in cool intelligence.

In 1928 Northrop cofounded the Avion Corporation in nearby Burbank, where he perfected a light, strong "multicellular" wing, built up from a number of sheathed-over, boxlike subcompartments.

After long repairs, the three-masted tea clipper will reopen to the public on April 26th in a new setting at Greenwich her racing lines and brass-sheathed hull held in a lattice of glass and steel so that visitors may walk aboard, around and beneath her.Launched in 1869 at the peak of British commercial power, the Cutty Sark was a response to globalisation.

Great glass-sheathed skyscrapers reach upwards in central Shenzhen, which boasts some of the world's tallest buildings.

With its steel exoskeleton and latex-sheathed computer screens that coil down from the ceilings, the store could attract a whole new audience.

They spend weeks creating elaborate pyres, often in the shape of a sacred bull, and burn their coffin-sheathed dead in joyous public ceremonies.