Sentence examples for veil across from inspiring English sources

Drawing a luminous veil across the view, she blurs the lines between sea and sky.

The moon drew a fine veil across the City of the Sun and stillness enveloped all creation.

"My grandson and daughter's mouths were full of dust," she said, pulling her veil across her face.

Add a hat as if from a Flemish master's painting, a light veil across the forehead and a regal imprint on fabric and this was the Belgian designer at her most elegant.

"We saw that people were being attacked and we came down to help," said Huda Ouda, a 30-year-old secretary, pulling her red veil across her face as mask against tear gas.

KABUL – A woman in an ill-fitting Afghan police uniform arrived for an interview at the Afghan National Police Training Center on Monday with a black veil across her face.

Some are jobless poor, like Zehia and Hassina, two 19-year-olds pushing wheelbarrows, who had baseball caps on over their headscarves and black veils across their faces — more out of shame than modesty.

Georgina Siklossy, a press officer for the European Network Against Racism who lives in Belgium, had a similar response to bans against full-face veils across Europe.

When a light, fugitive theme scampers through the music, a sparkling veil whips across the stage — Petrushka's soul, if I'm not mistaken.

Concerned by the regular debates among politicians about banning the veil – particularly across the Channel in France – she set the Protect Hijab campaing group.

When a light, fugitive theme scampers through the music, a sparkling veil whips across the stage Petrushka's soul, if I'm not mistaken.