Sentence examples for swathe it from inspiring English sources
If we weren't adept at disguising the horror — that is, if we didn't swathe it in pastel taffeta, place a bonnet on its head, and feed it chocolate — I don't see how we'd manage.
Why not take Chinese food, at that point still somewhat exotic in the West, and swathe it in exaggerated elegance?
Eying a long tiled wall, one felt that it might be an idea to swathe it — and possibly some of the guests — in carpeting.
Then he'll swathe it in billows of genuine, tearful, heartfelt nostalgia and lay it reverently to rest--with a stake through its heart.
Even as a child with limited money and shaky wrapping skills, I could still buy a mass market paperback for everyone in my family, swathe it in flimsy, drugstore wrapping paper and stack them all under the tree in an orderly pile... and in plenty of time to catch The March of the Wooden Soldiers on Channel 11.
"Three storeys high; eight or 10 lanes of traffic … you can imagine the dead zone along here," she says, indicating with a sweep of her arm the swathe it would have cut through Chinatown and across Vancouver's historic downtown east side.
What we need to put an end to is the smirking voyeurism of a commercial theatre that whets our appetite with nudity and then swathes it in shadows.
When he discovered that the Djokovic story was shaky, he buried the bad news deep in the story and swathed it in a few layers of obfuscation, suggesting that Mr. Simic is now "waiting to clinch the deal".
Take as an example these 51 words on "Metal Circus": "Not only were Hart and Mould singing more tunefully, but Hart's busy drumming, all singsong beats and light-speed snare rolls, rushed the music along more precisely than ever; Norton's bass lines often carried much of the tune while Mould's guitar swathed it all in a crackling blanket of electronic distortion".
Sign up for thEvensthoughICE, delivered theyour inbox dailungi
Once our children were swathed in it, we could wrap it around ourselves, ushering in a world of thoughtfulness and civility only dreamed of by utopian philosophers.
