shroud
noun
a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
were 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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She was conscious of the gyrations of Andy Bishop curled in the straw under her slender body, and she knew her curls were shrouding a face distorted with anxiety.
From The Secret of the Storm Country by Lucius W. Hitchcock
The green and gray of Nature were shrouding busily the two lonely graves of those who had fought the, frontier and been vanquished in that night of terror, when the old West claimed its own.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Emerson Hough
