sheathe
verb (used with object)
to put (a sword, dagger, etc.) into a sheath.
has sheathed
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present perfectof sheathe (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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Artist Timothy Paul Myers, in collaboration with Andrew Barnes, has sheathed an entire domestic setting in gray felt at Walter Maciel Gallery in Culver City, and the effect, writes critic Leah Ollman, is “gasp-inducing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2016
A crew has sheathed the statue in mesh and scaffolding to protect it from the elements until work can start in the spring.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 1, 2015
All nature is a vast symbolism; every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.—Chapin.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
The ship has sheathed wooden sides a foot and a half thick, and is bound with iron at the bow, to aid in battering the ice-pack.
From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Fullerton Waldo
