cloak
noun
a loose outer garment, as a cape or coat.
was cloaking
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past progressiveof cloak.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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A few years ago, I realized I was wearing all the clothes my kids grew out of that were still decent and that I was cloaking myself in my family skin.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
Management was cloaking its power in superficial egalitarianism in an effort to achieve ever greater control over work through domination of meanings, values, and feelings while making more money for the shareholders and the C-suite.
From Forbes ● Jun. 22, 2015
For the girl, what mattered after delivering the baby was cloaking her latest humiliation in a thin veil of dignity.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was cloaking myself in the hall when the merchant came up and offered his help, which I declined.
From Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
There was cloaking in the ladies' room and impatient waiting in the gentlemen's; there was hurrying down the stairs, through the hall, and out upon the piazza.
From Darkness and Daylight by Mary Jane Holmes
