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

A pallid autumnal fog was shrouding the forest.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

Evening was shrouding the forest in soft shadows when Merlin sank to rest.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis

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 Bedford-Jones, H.