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How to use pall in a sentence

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The city is sited at the foot of the Port Hills and when there is little wind a pall of smog lies over the city in winter.
Eight pall bearers from the Irish Guards lifted it from the gun-carriage and carried it slowly to the catafalque.
Among the charges considered by some to be subordinaries and by others to be common charges are the pall and roundle.
For his funeral the Archbishop's pall was borne by Sheffield steelworkers to his last resting place in the old churchyard in Bishopthorpe.
There were immense black plumes at each corner and a black velvet pall covered the coffin.
A naughty pall of mist has descended on the countryside, but it is far from sombre.
Witnesses reported explosions as well as towering flames and a huge pall of black smoke at the scrapyard.
The most famous skyline in the world had been changed forever, and in its place hung a pall of smoke and dust in the clear autumn sky.
It was a huge pall of thick black smoke billowing high into the air, west of the capital, that attracted our attention.
The women on the left are sharply defined but a pall of dust or smoke from a fire obscures the features of those on the right.
Instantly, a pall of black smoke belched out at them, enveloping them and turning everything dark.
Pouring from the top of this volcano, like smoke out of a factory chimney, is a rapidly spreading pall of what looks like steam.
Thankfully, the wind had died down, although it left a pall of greasy black smoke over the harbor area.
And my learned friends will be throwing the pall of their caution over the theatre as well, to the impoverishment of all of us.
For people who followed the game in person and on television, there was a pall of suspicion about the series from the very start.
Despite a bulging schedule of films and the presence of filmmakers of renown, a pall hung over last year's Local Heroes Film Festival.
The rain has stopped, but a gray pall still hangs in the air, claiming the day as its own.
The pall has lifted, but all has not gone swimmingly with Rumania ever since.
It's as though a grimy pall has been lifted off the city and a Bohemian spirit has returned once more to Bohemia.
And so a pall of defeat, and a sense of wasted lives hangs over Christiane's story, for which her uneasy family reunion cannot quite compensate.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A disquieting attack is made upon the nerves by the repercussive repetitions, the dense pall of melancholy hanging over the place.
The rotating ratchet is in the band of the cylinder and has a spline in it, and a pall on its outside.
The pall was not lifted until the Haggada performed its mission as a comforter.
A constant sense of gloom is settled like a pall over the whole building, blacker even than the soot and grime which encrust it.
The Saint is robed in the alb, dalmatic with two stripes, chasuble and pall as being Archbishop of Alexandria.
Things agreeable enough in small quantities, pall and cloy if the ration be overmuch augmented.
When not in use both corporal and pall are carried in a square silken pocket called the burse.
Under this vaporous pall, the fighting was sharp and desperate.
Showing the archiepiscopal mass-vestments and the cross and pall.
He carried with him only his archiepiscopal pall and his seal.
Even the azure, the everlasting azure, began to pall upon him.
As a result even I myself felt as if the pall of gloom which weighs us down were somewhat lifted.
A kind of pall had descended on the landscape, blotting out the sun.
He filched the very pall of brocade off his dead fathers coffin.
An unwearied pall of cloud muffled the whole expanse of sky from zenith to horizon.
The black water of Saguenay was its pall, the storm its requiem.
The rain beat down in a drizzle, and for miles the smoke hung like a pall.
Big, solemn oaks grew close to it, and their thick-leaved, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall.
A STACKYARD fire in Redcar could be seen more than ten miles away when it sent a plume of black smoke in a pall over the town.
He was groping about amongst familiar scenes, over which time had thrown the pall of unfamiliarity.
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