Sentence examples for sheathing of from inspiring English sources

Inside this is the inner sheathing of the vault, also in layers and full of tricks.

For those who wish it, there is freedom from the mandatory head-to-toe sheathing of the burka.

It's still a relatively quiet time of day the carpenters have just arrived and the real banging on the sheathing of the house hasn't yet begun.

The Taliban are notorious for imposing a puritanical Islam that includes the head-to-toe sheathing of women and justice by amputation.

The shell gun (raised to naval attention during the Crimean War by the Battle of Sinope, November 30, 1853) compelled navies to adopt the iron sheathing of hulls.

They have become notorious for many of their dictums, among them the head-to-toe sheathing of women, the refusal to provide education for girls, and the imprisonment of men who trim their beards.

Here is the moment of transformation, from the Stanley Lombardo translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses": She had just finished her prayer when a heavy numbness invaded her body And a sheathe of bark enclosed her soft breast Her hair turned into fluttering leaves, her arms Into branches; her feet, once so swift became mired in roots, and her face was lost In the canopy.

Chitin, which is the principal structural component of cell walls of fungi, yeasts, and algae, exoskeletons of insects, shells of crustaceans, and microfilarial sheathes of nematodes (Flach et al. 1992), is one of the most abundant renewable resources in nature following cellulose (Howard et al. 2003).

Through the careful re-sheathing of the building's interior, its pristine walls were modified to look long-abandoned and decrepit, with signs of furious chemical experimentation alluding to a morbid history.

Creating a way for me to step away from the sheathe of my familiar environment was my detour in the right direction and ultimately the universe's way of guiding me to live out the highest vision of my life.

For the East End-based narrator of Emily Perkins's Novel About My Wife, these "tawdry plastic sheathes of flowers in memory of a loving colour-photocopied mum or restless young chav who's got in the way of somebody's else's crack-fuelled Stanley knife" are "a new form of urban decoration, mawkish post-Diana grief".