shroud
noun
a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
had shrouded
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past perfectof shroud.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Further inside the morgue, workers in medical gowns had shrouded bodies with white sheeting as they appealed for families to collect bodies quickly for burial to make space for dead still arriving.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
Editors and columnists across the country were quick to denounce the silence and secrecy that had shrouded the aftermath of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2020
Clouds had shrouded the Oklahoma sky in a shade of granite.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2019
After a video tribute, Junior Seau's four children lifted a golden cloth that had shrouded his bronze bust, and daughter Sydney addressed the crowd from the back of the stage inside Tom Benson Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2015
By the time Ekon returned to the Temple of Lkossa, dawn had shrouded it in mist.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
