Example Sentences

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Gray haze hangs pall-like over Punjab’s homes, mosques, schools, streets and farmland.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2024

Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce.

From Time Magazine Archive

A pall-like stillness deepened about the bed where he lay.

From Bride of the Mistletoe by Allen, James Lane

A broad cloud, pall-like, threatening, which had mounted unnoticed by the girl, blotted out the light of the stars, as if to hide from alien eyes some unlovely secret of the wilds.

From The Gun-Brand by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

An atmosphere of tears and ominous foreboding hung pall-like over the city's social life.

From The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis by Dixon, Thomas