Sentence examples for spread a cloak from inspiring English sources
Nearly every nation has been ready to spread a cloak of silence over events in Tibet for the sake of good relations with Beijing.
When the tide goes out, she writes, you might glimpse — for a moment — its "strange and unfamiliar world," revealed by the absence of water, but still protected, modestly, by "a meadow of rockweeds, lying prostrate and sodden, now that the sea has left them, and spreading a protective cloak over all the animal life beneath them".
He belongs to the group of the five most holy persons of Shīʿah, those over whom Muhammad spread his cloak while calling them "The People of the House".
T hese days, gallantry does not refer to politely spreading your cloak across a mud puddle for a lady to cross.
Every day it came and spread its golden cloak.
They spread cloaks, strew leafy branches on the road and shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David!
At one point, Kastchei lowers the Princess onto the floor, lies down next to her, and spreads his black cloak over her.
This gives it a cloak of legitimacy.
No one was wearing a cloak".
Love is... a cloak of suburban guilt.
A cloak was as good as a dagger.
