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Example sentences for "shrouded"

Lexicographically close words:
shrivelling; shrivels; shriven; shroff; shroud; shrouding; shrouds; shrowd; shrowded; shrub
  1. When all things, in heaven and earth alike, were shrouded in the pitiless gloom which hid the face of her Heavenly Father from the despairing daughter.

  2. How I wish I might rightly describe her as she stood there, lighting by her very presence the gray interior of the dining-room, shrouded as it was by the “London particular.

  3. The massive dignity of the carriage porter, shrouded in a white glistening rubber coat, loomed bulkier than ever, as, with an elephantine grace, he whistled shrilly twice.

  4. His whole career is shrouded in some mystery.

  5. Whatever l'Ingegno was, or whatever he did, one cannot ignore his existence in a survey of the Umbrian school, and the very fact of the mystery in which he is shrouded attracts and draws one to him.

  6. It was a soft, dark night, with not a breath of wind to chase the heavy clouds that shrouded the sky.

  7. The darkness came rushing on with a rapidity unknown in northern climes, and shrouded her from our sight.

  8. When, however, little more than half a mile off she was seen to blow up, and instantly the spot where she had been was shrouded in darkness.

  9. The haunting recollection of those eyes, of which he had caught but a glimpse as the man bent over him and the fire beat up into his shrouded face, had tortured him, allowing him rest from thought neither day nor night.

  10. Thus imagining himself on through the labyrinth of passionate fancy, he floated down stream, shrouded in the morning mist.

  11. In fact, there was no end to these coverings; bands of canvas had been thrown over the velvet-covered ledges in front of the various galleries which they shrouded thickly.

  12. Jeremy Taylor, whose birth is shrouded in mystery, though he is said to be the son of a barber, was a singular compound, in character, of simplicity and erudition.

  13. Camillo hung in his chamber the unfinished portrait, and a black veil shrouded it from chance and curious eyes.

  14. My son, seventy years ago to-day the woman was born whose connection with the house of Negropontini has shrouded it in gloom, like the portrait you have seen in the saloon.

  15. Returning, she crept to the window, shrouded as it was by the inner curtain.

  16. A little distance away are nine others, shrouded in blankets: they are the dead.

  17. The long grass waves over them, and some of the low stones that mark them are entirely shrouded with ivy.

  18. After the first few minutes' firing they could see but little, for batteries and ships were, alike, shrouded in smoke.

  19. There was scarcely a breath of wind, and the ships were, in a few instants, shrouded in their own smoke; and were frequently obliged to cease firing until this drifted slowly away, to enable them to aim their guns.

  20. The front seemed deserted, and was shrouded in a mist which reduced the lamplights to a yellow glimmer.

  21. The mist was still rising from the sea in great white billows, which rolled across the beach and shrouded everything in an impenetrable veil.

  22. There was nothing whatever in the house, all silent about her and filled with shrouded furniture, that could alarm her.

  23. The dim light shrouded with fantasy the walls; along the wide passage and cabinets, high china jars, the hollow scoop of the window at the far-distant end, were all alive and moving.

  24. It was sunset when we first came here; and, wave beyond wave, the purple Italian hills tossed their crested summits to the foot of a range of stormy clouds that shrouded the high Alps.

  25. The old woman seated herself on the trunk of the fallen tree, threw aside the hood that shrouded her gray locks and beckoned her companion to draw near.

  26. Partly shrouded in the voluminous folds of one of the window-curtains, which fell from the ceiling to the floor, was seen the white drapery of a lady's robe.

  27. And last of all comes a figure shrouded in a military cloak, tossing his clenched hands into the air and stamping his iron-shod boots upon the broad freestone steps with a semblance of feverish despair, but without the sound of a foot-tramp.

  28. Tom had in reality startled the lady shrouded in that great travelling shawl, for once out of doors she stood full half a minute listening with bated breath, and one foot advanced, ready to spring away if any sound reached her.

  29. The moon shivered out again for an instant, and Mr. Mellen saw a woman shrouded in a long cloak rushing towards the house.

  30. Had she been laid out shrouded for burial she could not have been more helpless.

  31. He pointed to the box--he turned his finger to the man who stood in the shadows, shrouded with blackness, like the fiend he was.

  32. Slowly the vision faded away, and left me straining my gaze into the dark midnight which now shrouded the world, and endeavoring to calm my heart, which throbbed as audibly as the hollow echoes of a drum.

  33. So deeply shrouded in vegetation are these awful memorials of dead dynasties, that a traveler might approach within a few steps of the pyramidal mound, upon which they are built, and yet be totally unaware of their existence.

  34. She heeded not that the valleys were still shrouded in mist, or that the cold grey dawn yet lingered in the skies; was not her sunshine coming?

  35. So that not the fierce-fanged tiger in his heraldic coat can so stagger courage as the white-shrouded bear or shark.

  36. Shrouded in a thin drooping veil of mist, it hovered for a moment in the rainbowed air; and then fell swamping back into the deep.

  37. When we watch by shrouded hopes, Weeping at death's marble door, May the angels meet us here-- Lo!

  38. In this silent nature no events ever happen; all is shrouded in darkness; there is nothing in view save the twinkling stars, immeasurably far away in the freezing night, and the flickering sheen of the aurora borealis.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrouded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.