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Example sentences for "cloak"

Lexicographically close words:
cliques; clitoris; cliver; cloaca; cloacal; cloake; cloaked; cloaking; cloakroom; cloaks
  1. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.

  2. He was wrapped in his military cloak and buried by night in a hasty grave on the ramparts of the town.

  3. If a cloak or outer coat was worn, it was taken off or the motion of taking it off was made.

  4. They sat down on the log, and he pulled the dark cloak she wore more closely round her.

  5. We'll put the cloak over it to keep it cool.

  6. She muffled him in the cloak and listened.

  7. Wear a shady hat and bring that conspirator-looking cloak you wore last night--the fine weather can't possibly last forever.

  8. Wearing black chiffon and satin dress, black satin slippers, and a very large French circular cloak with stitched collar.

  9. He accepted the offer, and they sat with the cloak wrapped around them both, with Charles snuggling under the lower folds of it.

  10. Get the young lady to hold the cloak up so as it don't shine from 'ere to Tunbridge to give yer away like, and yer light the dip and 'ave a squint at this 'ere.

  11. The young man who entered nodded carelessly as he threw back the blue-gray cloak that hung about his shoulders and advanced into the room.

  12. He untied the silken strings of the cloak and tossed it from him.

  13. With an adroit presence of mind, the courtier pulled off his rich plush cloak and threw it on the ground to serve her for a footcloth.

  14. She accepted with pleasure an attention which flattered her, and it was afterwards quaintly said that the spoiling of a cloak had gained him many good suits.

  15. But clouds of toys untried do cloak aspiring minds, Which turn to rain of late repent by course of changed winds.

  16. I muffled my head in my cloak and lay on the deck of my ship.

  17. Now when he heard the words that the minstrel uttered, Odysseus caught up his purple cloak and drew it over his head.

  18. Laevsky lighted a candle, while Nadyezhda Fyodorovna sat down, and without taking off her cloak and hat, lifted her melancholy, guilty eyes to him.

  19. You see what the Japanese monkeys are like," Von Koren began, rolling himself up in his cloak and shutting his eyes.

  20. This was a young girl, who, with her red cloak thrown mat-like on the moss, was seated upon it cross-legged in the Turkish fashion.

  21. The fact is we have just moved in, and have not got quite comfortably settled yet," laughed the captain as he folded his own cloak as a seat for Sybil, and led her up and placed her on it, and sat himself down by her side.

  22. Sit here," she added, arranging her own red cloak as a seat.

  23. Having performed some religious ceremonies, he appeared dressed in a cloak and cap.

  24. He travels in the snow, with his saddle for a pillow, his horse-cloth for a bed, his cloak for a covering, and so sleeps.

  25. He was enveloped in a cloak of fur, the costliness of which told Mrs. Lawson that it was the purchase of wealth; a servant in plain livery supported him, for he seemed a complete invalid.

  26. On being left alone, Durie proceeded to undo the cords by which the cloak was fastened about his head; and, for the first time after three months, breathed the fresh air and saw the light of heaven.

  27. Drink again," said the other; "you are welcome; it is as good as a double cloak around you.

  28. Jamie has always been a trial to me, and a ground of criticism, especially because he used to cloak his good deeds with falsehood to escape praise instead of proclaiming them at the corners of the streets as the good people used to do.

  29. She bound this, still warm from her body, about him, wrapped her cloak round him.

  30. A waterproof cloak could be easily carried.

  31. On one of these sat a remarkably tall woman, in a red cloak and slouched bonnet, having the appearance of a tinker or beggar.

  32. They wrapped up the dead body in the sea cloak which had served as a pall, and went out, bearing it along with them.

  33. The cappa is a cloak with a hood or "capuchin;" a cotta is the stole worn by Catholic priests.

  34. Taking advantage of a visit you paid me, he went into your carriage with a cloak like yours over his shoulders, and was driven to the Prefecture of Police.

  35. According to Freron's account, Crebillon would pick up and carry home under his cloak all the wandering dogs he met with in the street, and give them shelter and hospitality.

  36. Thomas Siadoux wrapped the cloak round him, and they left the house.

  37. At St Andrews, she issued a proclamation, exposing the hollowness of the grounds upon which arms had been taken up against her, and showing that religion was only made a cloak to cover other more ungodly designs.

  38. But much more serious conclusions might have drawn by those who had penetration enough to see under the cloak of dissoluteness, in which he wrapped himself and his designs.

  39. This was a cloak for many sins; by flattering the vanity of Knox and the other gospel-ministers, he contrived to cover the hollowness of his character, and to patch up a reputation for sanctity.

  40. That Cathedral no longer has a soul; it is an inert corpse of stone; try attending Mass there, try to approach the Holy Table--you will feel an icy cloak fall on you and crush you.

  41. She is younger; she wears neither cloak nor veil; her bosom is full and closely fitted in a clinging dress, tightly drawn over the bust like wet linen; a bodice resembling the Carlovingian rokette, fastened on one side.

  42. The body is swathed, and rigid, in a large cloak with wide sleeves, and the richly-jewelled sheath of a gown that betrays no feminine outline of figure.

  43. Now happy he whose cloak and cincture can Hold out this tempest.

  44. We will not line his thin bestained cloak With our pure honours, nor attend the foot That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.

  45. The miller wrapped his heavy brown cloak about him and lay down upon his bed.

  46. Unseen hands pulled the miller's cloak from off his bed.

  47. Again his cloak was pulled from off his bed as if by unseen hands.

  48. His cloak could not be made to cover him as he lay upon his bed.

  49. Illustration: He wrapped himself in the brown cloak and went out through the fierce blinding storm] "Surely the prayers of the pious are needed this night," said the miller to his wife when he came in out of the fierce storm.

  50. He wrapped himself in the brown cloak and went out to the church through the fierce blinding storm.

  51. A violent storm arose in the night, and next day a scrap of her red cloak was found on the edge of a frightful bog, in which she is believed to have disappeared in the darkness and storm.

  52. He was just mounting the club steps, his long pen-wiper cloak about his shoulders, as Oliver, after his interview with Colonel Clayton, passed down the street on his way back to his mother.

  53. Yes--but I always thought he wore his old cloak that day on purpose, so he could be made an earl.

  54. The wide hat, long, evenly parted hair, and pen-wiper cloak could be traced to these same old-fashioned ideas.

  55. People smiled at him as he hurried along, his head bent forward, his long pen-wiper cloak reaching to his heels, a wide-brimmed Quaker hat crowning his head.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cloak" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alibi; apology; apply; arm; armor; assume; becloud; blanket; bless; blind; block; boot; camouflage; canopy; cap; champion; cloak; clothe; cloud; coat; coif; color; conceal; cope; copyright; cover; covering; covert; cowl; curtain; cushion; defend; device; disguise; drape; drapery; eclipse; ensconce; enshroud; ensure; envelop; excuse; facade; face; feint; fence; fend; film; frock; front; gloss; gown; guarantee; guard; guise; handle; hanging; harbor; hat; haven; hide; hood; housing; insure; jacket; keep; mantle; mask; masquerade; misrepresent; muffle; muffler; nestle; obscure; occult; overlay; overspread; pall; palliate; patent; police; pretence; pretense; pretension; pretext; protect; protestation; refuge; register; robe; safeguard; screen; scum; secrete; secure; semblance; shade; sham; shelter; shield; shoe; show; shroud; sock; spread; stratagem; submerge; subterfuge; superimpose; trick; underwrite; varnish; veil; vestment; whitewash; wrap