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

It happened in the sacred dressing-room, where Mrs. Price was cloaking with her own hands the departing half-niece of Mr. Spindler.

From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Harte, Bret

So there was cloaking in hot haste, and the gentlemen who lived near brought all the top-boots and goloshes they could collect for the benefit of those who had to cross the partially submerged roads.

From A Trip to Manitoba by FitzGibbon, Mary