Shrouded Sentence Examples

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  • They glimmered faintly, like lights shrouded by fog.

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  • The rest was shrouded in darkness.

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  • The monster in the corner of her mind was a man, shrouded in darkness.

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  • Again everything was shrouded in hard, dry perplexity, and again with a strained frown she peered toward the world where he was.

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  • Much about Alex was shrouded in the past.

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  • His features were shrouded in darkness.

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  • A great darkness shrouded the scene for three hours, and then, in His native Aramaic, Jesus cried in the words of the Psalm, " My God, My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?"

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  • But even when it's overcast, like today, you can get some interesting images; not so much close ups, but distance shots, with fog rolling down the valley and blankets of flowers shrouded in mist.

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  • That they are often shrouded in light mists makes them appear all the more mysterious.

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  • People worried that the world would be shrouded in darkness and death.

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  • There's just the very dark purple bruise on the inside of my left wrist of which the origin remains shrouded in drunken intrigue.

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  • The cause of such agreement is, according to Grisebach, shrouded in the deepest obscurity, but it finds its obvious and complete explanation in the descent from a common ancestor which he would unhesitatingly reject.

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  • The incidents of his life are shrouded by uncertain traditions, which naturally sprang up in the absence of any authentic record; the earliest biography was by one of the Sorani, probably Soranus the younger of Ephesus, in the 2nd century; Suidas, the lexicographer, wrote of him in the 11th, and Tzetzes in the 12th century.

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  • The real truth is not of course revealed at once, and many episodes in 19th-century history are still shrouded by official secrecy.

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  • Lamu was incredible - shrouded in ancient Arabic culture, African influences and sailing dhows on the deep blue Indian ocean.

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  • However, for students approaching this point these final stages are shrouded in mystery, anecdotal hearsay and, sometimes, myth.

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  • The bulging eyeglass burnt the legend to the lie- the artist dies, shrouded under the gray mackintosh, the empty sky.

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  • These chrome trims are either straight, to lengthen the exhaust pipe, or a shrouded fan shape to deflect the gases downwards.

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  • The exact origins of the bowed psaltery are shrouded in the mists of time.

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  • To one accustomed to go shrouded, a dress which emphasizes the hips and bust seemed vile at first.

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  • It was owing to their thorough organization, the secrecy and security with which they went to work, but chiefly to the religious garb in which they shrouded their murders, that they could, unmolested by Hindu or Mahommedan rulers, recognized as a regular profession and paying taxes as such, continue for centuries to practise their craft.

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  • Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of the street, something exploded, and the street was shrouded in smoke.

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  • A shrouded figure has been snapped climbing the Tulip staircase at the Queens House in Greenwich.

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  • A thick mist shrouded the trees of Pirang forest first thing this morning, confining a Wahlberg 's Eagle to its roosting branch.

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  • Still shrouded in clouds of woe I went to the count.

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  • The special recipe has been shrouded in secrecy within the Guinness family for hundreds of years.

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  • Whiskey 's history is shrouded now in the mists of time.

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  • The origin of the compass is shrouded in mystery.

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  • The origin of Methodism in Flash is shrouded in obscurity, .

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  • It lingered, shrouded in scaffolding, its future uncertain for five years.

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  • I 'm reminded of a post-industrial Angkor Wat, or the islands of the Andaman Coast near Phuket shrouded in fog.

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  • Jackson spent most of his life embroiled in one scandal after another, and in death the singer is still shrouded in mysterious circumstances and unusual situations.

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  • The terms of his release were shrouded in secrecy, but maybe it involves his banishment from the country.

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  • Grand Bahama Island is shrouded in a tropical cosmopolitan ambiance that permeates through the air from Freeport to Lucaya.

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  • At Combe Warren a great rounded bush, 10 feet or more high and almost as much through, is each year shrouded with the delicate yellow flowers.

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  • From the times of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the modern peoples of today, the Golden Ratio has remained shrouded in a sense of mystique that is yet to be completely understood by science.

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  • The distinctive bridge can be glimpsed from all over the Bay area, and its silhouette, often shrouded in fog has come to be synonymous with the "City by the Bay."

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  • This region of the world was not shrouded in mystery until 1952 when George Sand wrote a now-famous article for Fate Magazine titled, Sea Mystery at our Back Door.

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  • You may see Kriya yoga techniques mentioned as shrouded in mystery.

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  • At its most fundamental level, no one can deny that these nightgowns are designed to keep the wearer warm, while still feeling shrouded in comfort.

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  • Maddeningly for fans, despite the questions, Harper's love life remains as shrouded in mystery as ever, which is just the way he likes it.

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  • Yet from the beginning, too many important facts had been shrouded in secrecy.

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  • If the baby died within a month of its baptism, it was shrouded in its chrisom; otherwise the cloth or its value was given to the church as an offering by the mother at her churching.

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  • With them it began, and successive generations of inquirers into a strange career and a character still shrouded and baffling refer to them as settled starting-points of investigation.

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  • Unfortunately the events of his age are shrouded in obscurity, but one can recognize the return of exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem and its environs - now half-Edomite - and various internal rivalries which culminate in the Samaritan schism.'

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  • Its origin is shrouded in obscurity.

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  • Plutarch remarked the fact that the Greek myths of Cronus, of Dionysus, of Apollo and the Python, and of Demeter, " all the things that are shrouded in mystic ceremonies and are presented in rites," " do not fall short in absurdity of the legends about Osiris and Typhon."

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  • Plutarch naturally presumed that the myths which seem absurd shrouded some great moral or physical mystery.

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  • The corpse, having been washed and shrouded, is placed in an open bier, covered with a cashmere shawl, in the case of a man; or in a closed bier, having a post in front, on which are placed feminine ornaments, in that of a woman or child.

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  • How could they hope to have a normal relationship shrouded in secrecy?

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  • Midway in the outer part of the Gulf of Guayaquil is Amortajada or Santa Clara island, whose resemblance to a shrouded corpse suggested the name which it bears.

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  • The origin of the Bombay invasion is shrouded in obscurity.

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  • North America is bathed in frigid waters around its broad northern shores; its mountains bear huge glaciers in the north-west; the outlying area of Greenland in the north-east is shrouded with ice; and in geologically recent times a vast ice-sheet has spread over its north-eastern third; while warm waters bring corals to its southern shores.

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  • The double bay of Gizhiga and Penzhina, as well as that of Taui, would be useful as harbours were they not frozen seven or eight months in the year and persistently shrouded in dense fogs in summer.

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