Example Sentences

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Moscow's Covid-19 lockdown had cloaked proceedings in an even thicker layer of secrecy, with both press and public barred from the building right up until the final verdict.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2020

The photo was professionally shot and was taken in Annese’s lab, after the various membranes that had cloaked it were removed, leaving it fully exposed.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2016

He opened an organization — “my directive,” he said — that the former coach Eric Mangini had cloaked in secrecy.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2010

The inflamed rhetoric emanating from Mideast capitals heightened the air of unreality that had cloaked the impasse from the outset.

From Time Magazine Archive

The daze that had cloaked her during their journey was lifting, like cobwebs being brushed aside.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo