Example Sentences

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Du Bois reckoned with his judgment and the tumult enshrouding it chiefly through writing.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

Flying into southern Iraq in March, the irony felt as thick as the murk enshrouding the city of Basra below.

From Salon • May 22, 2022

Thankfully, summer crowds are mostly abated this time of year and visitors will be treated to a show of brilliant fall foliage enshrouding the pristine mountain lake.

From Fox News • Oct. 14, 2021

He began putting in volunteer shifts of up to 20 hours transporting bodies, putting them in freezers in the funeral home, washing and enshrouding them in white cloth and taking them to cemeteries for burial.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2021

Vaguely he wondered at it; he had not yet entirely cast off the enshrouding stupor that gripped him.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 by Various