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Sentence Examples A shroud of thick clouds obscured its furthest side, giving the illusion of infinitude. The fuel injection orifices inject liquid fuel into the flow channel wherein it is atomized by compressed air channeled through the shroud inlet. We must rid ourself of this psychological cloak of darkness before it becomes our shroud. The ships left Britain five weeks ago under a shroud of secrecy but it has proved impossible to keep their route secret. The grille is connected to the shroud of the radiator so it also called as the radiator grille or the radiator air inlet. The shroud is imprinted with the image of a naked man who bears the marks of whipping and crucifixion. The foulness of the air was a palpable thing, a reek that stunned and then settled upon the senses, a weapon and then a shroud. It is the only one of the top three farmer-controlled food firms who maintain a shroud of secrecy on their executive directors' pay packets. Senate Minority Leader Senator Harry Reid invoked Rule 21 that forced senators to close the doors and operate in a shroud of secrecy. The effect is that of a chrysalis in a cocoon struggling to get free and, at points, of a body emerging from its death shroud. When you're fed up, lash one end to the shroud, wrap the baggywrinkle around tightly and seize on the other end. The screw holds in the shroud line up easily with those in the heatsink base, and the four small screws supplied attach the cover firmly. If the child died within a month of baptism, the chrisom-cloth was used as a burial shroud. It was a sickening sight, and I could imagine the frantic efforts he must have made pulling on his shroud lines before the earth crushed him. Once in the water, the hoist promptly snarled in the parachute's shroud lines. He cut the shroud lines and tied them to a couple of trees to mark a spot that could be seen from the air. We had been instructed to steer by manipulating the shroud lines of the parachute, and I tried that without success. The chorus unveils gleaming shards of bombastic wit and cut-throat tuneage before the shroud of unfriendly uber-noise descends once more. Dense clouds shroud Titan's surface, making it mysterious and sunless as well. The figure of Christ, his sepulchral pallor set off by a shroud of tender pink, confronts the viewer with awesome directness. Show More Sentences As we saw earlier, this is equivalent to just over one turn of the bottlescrew, or about 0.7kg in increased shroud tension. Her shroud was covered in red and white carnations, an icon placed on her breast, while candles burned at her head and feet. His impact shroud wouldn't do him much good, even if it is made of woven buckytubes. Then there is light, and a discarded shroud, and a risen Christ bearing the stigmata leaves the tomb. His burial shroud deflates as he rises and walks off to the sound of martial drums. The corpse is washed, wrapped in a shroud, carried to the cemetery by a group of mourners, and buried in a tomb. But the shame and the revulsion, the eyes like a mourning shroud, would torment his mind. The grinding wheel is surrounded by a shroud which includes a water-cooled cooling jacket. Flowers are particularly prevalent, perhaps a harking back to an earlier source, the distinctive lambamena burial shroud. For such individuals, who viewed life as an opportunity to perfect themselves and the world, the shroud and the wedding garment are one. The Ihram, the two unstitched pieces of white cloth that replace dress for men, reminds us of the burial shroud. The body is washed and wrapped in a shroud, then cloth, and then sometimes a felt rug. She ran out of the shroud of dust and towards the helicopters while dodging the rain of bullets that came behind. From within the shroud of smoke a vehicle emerged, popping a large wheelie before falling back onto its front wheel and zooming away. Nevertheless, the image is believed by many to be a negative image of the crucified Christ and the shroud is believed to be his burial shroud. Her burial shroud was tattered and ripped, her feet were stripped to the bone and a disgusting, black tongue wriggled around in her mouth. The burial shroud was lying where the body had been placed and the headpiece was folded neatly and put in a different part of the tomb. Believers want to prove that the shroud is not art, that it is the one, true burial shroud. The body is ritually bathed and wrapped in a white shroud in preparation for burial. When his eyes readjusted to the darkness, he looked around the room, everything covered in a heavy shroud of dust. Show More Sentences A 180-degree turn of a small key inserted at the rear of the bolt shroud renders the rifle inert by locking the firing pin and bolt. The shroud base is very wide, restricts sheeting angles and will contribute to reduced performance to windward. The 5500 rpm 60 mm fan is mounted onto a metal shroud which is screwed into the base. Atop the external tank would sit a rocket stage and a 40-ton automated cargo lander covered by a streamlined shroud. The bodies were laid out in a neat row, each wrapped in a shroud of black plastic, next to the twisted wreckage of the bus. The slide is made of a stamping of chrome moly steel, with a machined steel breechblock segment, and covered with a polymer shroud. The shroud and striker assembly can also be removed from the bolt body for maintenance without the use of tools. So the shroud is a useful feature designed to prevent an operator from burning himself on an overheated barrel. A tab on the shroud engaged a small slot in the frame to prevent it from turning and the rifling twist made everything self tightening. The shroud is of the full-underlug style, enclosing and protecting the ejector rod. The clouds above formed a cloak of black, like a funeral shroud being shed over the battlefield. Fear of homophobic retaliation will prevent us from making allies and lifting the shroud of ignorance from our oppressors. With its stovepipe-like shape, the Lewis gun's prominent barrel shroud is particularly noteworthy. The shroud bears the faint traces of a man's face, limbs and folded hands, visible even behind the bulletproof, hermetically sealed glass casing. When the black shroud was removed from the white jersey, the crowd exploded with cheers in a standing ovation as fans began to chant Robinson's name. They buried us without shroud or coffin And in August ... the barley grew up out of our grave. The shawl, we learn, weaves its way through Mexican life, from its use as a baby carrier to a shroud used to bury the dead. Indeed, the shroud is as difficult to understand, in its way, as the Resurrection. Ultimately, it is worry about what the shroud might mean that determines its rejection by modern rationalists. Sometimes the quilts are eventually used as a shroud for burial. Show More Sentences Avinoam Danin, a botanist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem claims he has identified pollen from the tumbleweed Gundelia tournefortii and a bean caper on the shroud. At Hemp Knoll the bone toggle had been broken and subsequently decorated, suggesting a long history of use before being sewn onto the clothing or shroud of the deceased. She was curled up in a cozy little ball with her arms around her knees, nightshirt trailing beneath her like a ghostly shroud, not quite touching the floor. The two men run to the tomb, find it empty, with the shroud and head cloth lying there separately, and, astonished, they return to their dwelling. The fact that vanillin can not be detected in the lignin on shroud fibers, Dead Sea scrolls linen, and other very old linens indicates that the shroud is quite old. One of the interesting aspects of the fan construction is the fan shroud. There is a protective shroud on top between the heatsink and the fan, which has a round opening to allow the air to get to the fins of the cooler from the fan. When the gun is fired, the barrel moves backward inside the shroud. The guards ceased fire and looked up, they were momentarily blinded by the thin mist of steam but that didn't stop them from firing blindly out of the shroud of steam. A current of anticipation has carried a growing group of people to Celtic Park on a Wednesday afternoon, a shroud of optimism spread out in front of the stadium's doorsteps. Finally the shroud of thick trees abruptly ended, just as a curtain would, and there before them stood a yard of dark green-blue grass shimmering in already full sunlight. The recent cooperation between the Republic and the Confederacy after the Confederate Civil War was a start on lifting the shroud of hatred that separated Terrans and Gaians. If these happen to be the weaknesses that the team officials have been talking about, I wonder why did they prefer to wrap them in a shroud of secrecy. Fog covers the mountains like a shroud and hides sudden drops. The morning sunshine gave way to a sombre shroud of grey clouds, which threatened rain but failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the boisterous crowd. Parachute shroud lines are made from cord-like Spectra kite line. But I suppose it was too much to expect for him to have a black, twirly moustache and for her to cackle mysteriously from beneath an impenetrable black shroud. Their religious rituals shroud themselves in mystic diversity. Asleep in a dream world, where the grass is still green and there is a horizon of dreams to visit the cloth covering her, though, takes on ominousness of a shroud. Huge gothic, almost science fiction based soundscapes shroud their set. Show More Sentences This white vesture was worn for a month after the child's birth, and if it died before the expiration of that time, it had the chrisom for its shroud. It is said to depict a chrisom child, i.e., a chrisom is a child's white robe worn at baptism, used as a shroud if the infant dies within a month. This brings us into the shroud of infamy that surrounds the film. I fear that the shameless invocation of democratic imagery to shroud fundamentally anti-democratic action is gradually seeping in and taking hold of Australia Felix. The bodies are prepared by a local funeral director, wrapped in a heavy shroud, weighted and carried to a designated site miles out to sea where the ceremony takes place. Janet trudged through the freshly fallen silent shroud of powder. Not the darkness of oblivion but the shroud of gloom on a sunless winter day, which made the room look as though as though the light had been switched off. A small number of the skeletons were in long cists but the majority were simple shroud burials. Also make sure you don't lean on the shroud assembly, which some mechanics call a heat shield. One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen. The paperbarks and floodgums that shroud us look eerie and ethereal in the silver light, and I find myself matching Jasper's step. Two servants dressed in the same shroud and hat as the Ankou pile the dead into the cart, and to hear it creaking at night means you have little time left to live. The cloth of gold shroud and the lead covering were found to be in a rapid state of decay since the vault had first been opened 21 months earlier. Before his death, Donne posed for his own memorial statue and was depicted by Nicholas Stone as wrapped in a burial shroud, and standing on a funeral urn. Were weaving and spinning and singing aloud, Were broidering my bride-veil of lace, But the lowering three sisters they wove me my shroud As death kissed me cold in the face. Within the vault, inside the remnants of a decayed oak coffin, there was a body entirely enclosed in lead, with a decayed shroud of cloth of gold over it. Examples from Classical Literature One of the most economical ovens for making wood charcoal is that invented by M. Foucauld, which he calls a shroud, or abri. The white shroud is pressing, pressing heavily upon the lone boy, like the suffocating night of the basket cell. Take a clove hitch round each shroud, hauling well taut, and seize the eye of the other end to the shroud. I had changed my clothes at the death camp that I might have a neat clean shroud if I died. Resplendent wings are they, wherein they can shroud themselves from head to foot in a panoply of glistering glory. And yet the idea cleaves to me strangely, and is liable to stick to my shroud. Rauff speaks of a woman of Bohemia, who, in 1355, had eaten in her grave half her shroud. It is incombustible, and anciently was wrought into a soft, flexible cloth, which was used as a shroud for dead bodies. They laid the body on the floor in front of the prison cells and covered it with the tallith as with a shroud. The Lusatian Wends hold that when a corpse chews its shroud or sucks its own breast, all its kin will soon follow it to the grave. Who knows if it will not be my shroud, and if these stitches which I make will not be unpicked by the worms? The moujik cut off the left skirt of the shroud, and gave up the coffin-lid. This Oratorian and his admirers have stated that I wore a hair shirt and shroud. They are mere ghosts, their skeletons wrapped in a shroud of whitewash. Thermal shroud for pediatrics, two sheets prepared polyethylene surface trilaminar unbraided, heated mechanism convection. Many women veil and shroud their heads in black as she does. He takes less pride in the beeswing who sees the shroud in the bottle. A bluish mist seemed to steal out of the forest and shroud the house. How does the president, who may or may not be an alumnus, negotiate with people who see themselves as protectors of the golden shroud? She washed her, wrapped her in a shroud, put her into the casket, laid a wreath of flowers on her head and arranged her curls. Show More Sentences Startled from his lethargy by that direful cry, Jonah staggers to his feet, and stumbling to the deck, grasps a shroud, to look out upon the sea. The skirt of her shroud hung like a wet weed in the falling torrent. Every rope and shroud was thrumming and screeching in resistance to the fierce weight of the squall. And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them. The snow was an immaculate shroud, unmarked by track of bird or beast. Cold and keen the north wind blows, Silent falls the shroud of snows. To kill the vampire you had to remove the shroud from its mouth, which was its food like the milk of a child, and put something uneatable in there,' said Borrini. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of shroud? Words that rhyme with shroud What is the past tense of shroud? What is the plural of shroud? What is the adjective for shroud? What is the noun for shroud? Translations for shroud Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Shropshire shroom Shroff shroff shriver shriven shrouded shrouded in mystery shrouded in secrecy shrouding shrouds shroud-waving 6-letter Words Starting With s sh shr shro shrou