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Example sentences for "veil"

Lexicographically close words:
vehicle; vehicles; vehicular; vehy; vei; veiled; veiling; veille; veillon; veils
  1. Thus she wears a blue veil and a claret-coloured robe.

  2. Night, with her veil of gauze studded with stars floating overhead.

  3. It was just at this point that good fortune brought him into contact with Georgie Talcott, and it was like the lifting of a veil from before his eyes.

  4. Then she drew Georgie in, and as soon as the carriage was in motion pulled her veil aside and gave her a warm kiss.

  5. My bliss no human thought can understand; I wait for thee alone, and that fair veil Of beauty thou dost love shall yet retain.

  6. He is dead," we cried, and even amid that gloom The wintry veil was rent!

  7. Whatever veil is thrown by a longing recollection had not intensified nor even made more mysterious the beauty of that happy ground; not in my very dreams of morning had I, in exile, seen it more beloved or more rare.

  8. From behind the veil of the southernmost hill comes a faint note as From undiscoverable lips that blow An immaterial horn.

  9. A veil midway down the vast stage lifts, disclosing an oriental city.

  10. A second veil lifts, disclosing in the hazy distance the limits of the city; spires, domes and minarets are bathed in a glow of golden light.

  11. She glanced again at Fay through a veil of them, looking earnestly for something she did not find.

  12. Will you be so good as to put your veil up.

  13. When he followed his uncle and aunt into the room Mrs. Shirley came forward, her thin veil again covering her face.

  14. There was a steel-grey veil drawn across the bay.

  15. There was a dumb submission in her eyes; but through this blank veil I had seen now and then a blaze of pain.

  16. Kan Wong's eyes were ahead, striving to pierce the pungent veil that hid the enemy.

  17. Through the veil a sound crept, a sound he knew well by this time, secret footfalls in the hall, faltering, retreating, loitering returning to lag near the door.

  18. The solemn farce of mourning and deep sorrow affected by Pizarro, who by these honors to the dead would intimate the sincere regard he had entertained for the living, was too thin a veil to impose on the most credulous.

  19. He became aware of "the dissonance between his pitiless vision which enabled him to see all the horror of reality, and his compassionate heart which made him desire to veil these horrors and retain his readers' affection.

  20. What a singular gift the fellow had of divesting things and people of their garments, of tearing away their veil of shams, and their phylacteries!

  21. As he was obliged to confess to himself, he got no change out of her--she was cool enough, as cool as her shoulders looked under their veil of creamy lace.

  22. The girl was perfectly composed, prettier than ever, in her white robes and veil over her banged dark chestnut hair; her eyelids hovered demure over her dark hazel eyes.

  23. It was raining, and she drew up her veil to feel its freshness on her hot face.

  24. This was early in the fateful summer, before any as yet felt the world-tremors, or saw the Veil of the Temple rending and the darkness beginning to gather.

  25. The blanket across the doorway of the loft had been taken down, there was nothing to veil the empty room.

  26. That would have been the place for Irony to tear the veil from before the eyes of Irene's boy!

  27. XV Mark's nineteenth birthday rose in grey mist, slowly dropped its veil to the grass, and shone clear and glistening.

  28. She put up her veil to get more air, feeling choked.

  29. A loose-hanging veil depended from her mushroom-shaped and coloured hat.

  30. Moving, or motionless, now distinct, then covered suddenly by the thick veil of some material object, they circled round her quiet figure, lying back in the chair with shut eyes.

  31. It was like him to veil his longings under such dry statements.

  32. We have detected it, when invisible, forming a veil round our earth, and keeping off the intense heat of the sun's rays by day, or shutting it in by night.

  33. But the vapour which formed a veil against the sun in the day, now forms a still more powerful veil against the escape of the heat by night.

  34. But we have an invisible veil protecting us, made - of what do you think?

  35. The bride was dressed in a plain white muslin, with a mantilla lace veil of her own work on her head, without any hat, after the fashion of her own country, with a small wreath of silver flowers in her dark hair.

  36. You may remember having seen in the newspapers an account of a philosopher in Germany who made caterpillars manufacture for him a veil of cobweb.

  37. The girl wears a veil as if she were afraid someone might recognize her.

  38. No, and the girl lowered her veil as soon as she could.

  39. These reveries were not so profound, however, as to prevent him from remarking that thick clouds were driving over the sky, while the stars shone out and disappeared at intervals, as the grey vapoury veil was cast over them, or withdrawn.

  40. But women have always some veil ready to hide agitating truths from their own eyes; and Agnes dismissed the thought ere it had possessed her mind for a moment.

  41. And I would give them in return a veil and a pair of gloves," answered Algernon Grey.

  42. I can see it all now; but I will trust in his honour, and while I veil my own feelings as much as may be, will believe that whatever he does is just and noble.

  43. Nay, throw this veil over you, my love," he said, taking up one that lay near and putting it over her head.

  44. The windows of the room were open, but shaded with trees and flowering shrubs, and a green soft light spread through the interior, as the rays of the setting sun poured through the veil of leaves.

  45. Had it been the function of prophecy to remove the veil of obscurity which God in His wisdom has hung over the destinies of men and kingdoms, it would never have attained, as it has done, to the love and reverence of mankind.

  46. They do indeed so far lift the veil of the Unseen as to shadow forth the outline of the near future, but they do this only on general terms and on general principles.

  47. The great and transcendant Reality it apprehends lies evermore behind the veil of phenomena.

  48. The phenomenalist cannot arrest our inquiry by simply drawing the veil of nescience over it.

  49. Not so thick a veil In winter e'er hath Austrian Danube spread O'er his still course, nor Tanais far remote Under the chilling sky.

  50. They called me Isis; they put a great veil on my head, and they said that nobody could lift it.

  51. No philosopher has been able with his own strength to lift this veil stretched by nature over all the first principles of things.

  52. Their usual dress is a long gown of very dark blue cotton, a black head veil, and a thick black face veil that is kept in its place below the eyes by a gilded ornament which looks like an empty spool.

  53. Some of us love the Italian haze (which is not in the least a mist), that soft veil which makes the mountains look as if they were covered with velvet.

  54. Genevieve Rod, a veil round her head, stood in the French window that led to the garden.

  55. Who shall attempt to lift the veil from Lucy’s heart during the suspense of the succeeding minutes?


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alibi; apology; apply; armor; becloud; blackout; blanket; blind; block; blur; bosom; camouflage; canopy; censorship; classify; cloak; clothe; cloud; coat; color; conceal; cope; cover; covering; covert; cowl; curtain; device; disguise; drape; drapery; eclipse; enclose; enfold; ensconce; enshroud; envelop; excuse; facade; feint; film; front; gloss; guise; handle; hanging; hide; hood; housing; invest; mantle; mask; masquerade; muffle; muffler; obscure; occult; overlay; overshadow; overspread; pall; parasol; pretence; pretense; pretension; pretext; protestation; refuge; repression; screen; scum; secrete; security; semblance; shade; shadow; sham; shelter; shield; show; shroud; shut; stratagem; submerge; subterfuge; sunshade; superimpose; suppression; transparency; trick; umbrella; varnish; veil; vestment; whitewash; withhold; wrap; wraps