Sentence examples for shroud around from inspiring English sources

Diller describes the veil as a coy shroud around the vault, which "tempts you from the street with its lifted corners".

At one time, authoritarian regimes could draw a shroud around the events in their countries by simply snipping the long-distance phone lines and restricting a few foreigners.

He wears his sensitivity like a shroud around his now muscular body, which looks very black in the moonlight as he lies in bed, startled to have received a phone call from Kevin after many years.

The same sense of dignity was present in "Elegy," a 1993 solo by Martial Roumain that was made into rather more than the sum of its parts by Ms. Clark, a stoical, almost archetypal figure as she pulled her voluminous dress into a shroud around her at the end.

With a misty sheet of rain wrapped like a shroud around the northwest coast of Merseyside, a golfer given up for dead walked up the 18th fairway to a standing ovation, waving and smiling, his hat doffed to reveal the still ample and familiar shock of blond hair with a touch of gray.

Example: the shroud around the gear shift doesn't match the color or texture of the molding that surrounds the hand brake located right behind it.

Bram Stoker's novel is highly physical; its narrative strands wind like shrouds around the bodies of its characters.

Forty civilians appear to be dead; there are shrouds around the small bodies of children, which have been laid out in a row.

In this paper, a new concept of employing shrouds around the heat source is proposed.

A part of the gas mixture is fed as a shroud flow around the central aerosol jet to stabilize and shield the aerosol jet from surrounding air.

The unwanted absorption features arising from cryodeposits on the cell windows at low temperatures were eliminated by building an internal vacuum shroud box around the cell which significantly minimized the growth of cryodeposits.