Sentence examples for sit veiled from inspiring English sources

In villages in Haryana, grandmothers sit veiled and silent while men are present.

This created a complete change in the position of women in the congregation: in the synagogue the women were inactive participants in the worship service and sat veiled on the women's side, usually separated from the rest by an opaque lattice.

Warm amber light filled the spaces between bodies, reaching the patio where students sat veiled in drowsy clouds of hookah smoke playing backgammon as their grandfathers had taught them.

Inside, a heavyset older woman, head partly veiled, sat behind a wooden counter on top of which rested a row of variously sized glass bottles.

Anxious women, draped in black head-to-foot chadors, or veils, sit in the sultry rooms fanning their sick children.

The men, mostly bearded and wearing traditional garb, stood along the walls while the women sat in the back, veiled and in tears.

For example, to the east of my house is a four-block strip known as Little Egypt where the women are veiled and the men sit at hookah cafes looking at women who wander by un-veiled.

Wendy Ramshaw's Little-Bo-Peep mini dress from 1962 sits silk-by-veil with the gray-blue coatdress worn by the Duchess of Cornwall nearly half a century later.

"When she removed her veil, I had to sit down.

Dimon's speech was a collection of talking points -- the importance of education and environmental reform -- and veiled potshots at the protesters who sat in the audience before him.

At this end, as in an old portrait, the Great Blasket Island itself sits framed behind glass: solemn, its green hills buxom, its head veiled by a private rain.