mantle
noun
a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
has mantled
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present perfectof mantle (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In a related way, America in the past century has mantled itself with museums, as the temple of art gradually replaced the church as the emblematic focus of civic self-esteem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair It has mantled a world.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
Nature, as if weary of ruin, and wishing to hide the rents she has made, has mantled its sides with the richest tropical vegetation.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
It means that the deep snow which has mantled hill and valley for five months has melted into brooks and rivulets which are plunging and splashing away to find the ocean from whence they came.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Arthur Henry Howard Heming
