Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use shrouds in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shrouds? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
She was accidentally rammed by HMS Warrior in thick weather in the winter of 1867, losing boats, chains, shrouds and back stays.
The armoured shrouds on the four turbines looked tattered like ancient lace.
The Kapsiki people of northern Cameroon, for instance, keep a cattle breed specially for the skins, which are made into burial shrouds.
Other important historical contexts for lavish works of this kind were the splendid funerary shrouds placed in royal burials.
I'd noticed earlier that the alley we share had a lot of bricks scattered around, but a curtain shrouds my view of the actual wall.
The slapping of shrouds against a mast where a cutter lay moored in the inner bay.
Coffins were in use for the wealthy in the Middle Ages, but many people were buried simply in shrouds.
Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
The dead would seem to have gone to their pyres dressed rather than in shrouds.
Many of these rhetorical expressions are also woven into lambamena, or burial shrouds.
The next day the body is washed, placed in shrouds, and laid on a bed for a final viewing.
The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay.
There is an anchor locker forward and rigging shrouds are well inboard for easy passage fore and aft.
The dead are washed, wrapped in seamless shrouds, and buried in graves facing Mecca without coffins or markers.
Using the back edge of the mast shoe as your guide check to see the string between the shrouds and aft edge of the mast shoe are parallel.
Reaching the shrouds hanging from Kaliakra's starboard side, he began his ascent.
In the fresh wind the vibration of the shrouds as fifty men ran up the ratlines could be distinctly heard.
The product of a seafaring family, Seal is at home among the rigging, the ratlines, the shrouds and spars of his leading lady.
Three upright ring shrouds, housing the air propellers and standing upright at the back of the ship, give the Zubr its distinctive appearance.
Unknown to her guardian, she spent the whole day climbing up and down the shrouds, gazing off the port bow and hauling with the rest of the crew.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
The chain plates, and the shrouds where they go over the mast should be looked at, and also the bobstay and other headgear.
One is by going along some ropes, called the futtock shrouds, when one hangs very much as a fly does crawling along the ceiling.
Looking up, I saw him with his back almost horizontal above me, going along the futtock shrouds to get into the top.
It used the shrouds and stays of the still upright mainmast as an aeolian harp from which to draw horrible music.
Then he moved off to a davit, and climbed the mizzen shrouds to the top-mast.
Two engineers sawed nearly through the mast at its base, while the others cleared away the light shrouds and forestay.
Also, the breast-rope which is made fast to the shrouds to protect the leadsman.
There was a scramble to the shrouds, and among the first to reach them was McGovern.
The sun was sinking in shrouds of gray when we passed the portcullis at Roche-Mauprat.
So speaks he, and shrouds his brows with his mother's myrtle.
She was leaning against the mizen shrouds, between the coils of rope.
He smiled as he stood on the gunnel, holding on by the main shrouds.
The rig is high-modulus carbon with rod shrouds and EC6 rigging is optional along with an hydraulic forestay to adjust rake.
The lashing which secures the davit to the shrouds when out of use.
The port shrouds of the foremast carried away at the chain-plates, and the fore-topmast leaned over drunkenly to starboard.
While they were grinding their razors some Tramps passing that way stole the shrouds.
You must climb out by the futtock shrouds, as every proper sailor does.
Each pair of shrouds should be served below the futtock staves.
Upon each side of the Pequod's quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank.
The hugely supported cutter rig has six shrouds, twin backstays and twin forestays, and there is a Hoyt staysail boom for self-tacking and poling out twin headsails.
Show More Sentences
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
7-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024