shroud
noun
a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
was shrouding
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past progressiveof shroud.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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As a blue tarp was pulled off it, audience members could hear a snapping noise as the bronze figure it was shrouding suddenly appeared to drop in height.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
It was shrouding everything in a mist as blank as the canvas that the man was painting on.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Evening was shrouding the forest in soft shadows when Merlin sank to rest.
From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence
How often he had watched it under its different aspects and learned to love it, whether it was shrouding itself in a grey mantle of rain-laden vapour, or shining through a transparent haze of blue.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
Not until their pipes were going, and the red afterglow was shrouding the fading day, did he mention what he had learned at Datil.
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
