How to Use shroud in a Sentence

shroud

1 of 2 noun

• The first month’s salary is for the uniform; the second month’s, for the shroud.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Apr. 2020
• This white sheet, this white flag, a shroud instead of the sun?
  — Abe Beame, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
• When Christ was born, he would have been wrapped in a shroud.
  — Beth Hoeltke, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2022
• The second of these factors was the shark’s milky shroud.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• Rows of corpses wrapped in white shrouds were piled up out front.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Air is drawn in through the shroud and passed over both of these filters.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2022
• Clouds hugged the mountaintops, fell around them like a shroud.
  — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
• The lawn mowers in the recall come in black, with the name Troy-Bilt on the engine shroud and on the bagger.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 June 2022
• As starlight filtered through the shroud, the telescope recorded the changes to the near infrared part of the spectrum.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
• Each one took turns tucking Ali’s body, now wrapped in a white shroud, in their arms.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
• His mother bought a shroud and a small coffin, which stood in a corner of the house for the rest of his youth.
  — Thomas Meaney, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2022
• This is when fans found out that Big John sent her a letter with the wheat symbol that's tied to the shroud.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 3 Aug. 2021
• Toward the end, when things were bleakest, my mom would still shine through the shroud of the disease.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 2 Mar. 2021
• The shroud is believed by many to be the cloth in which Jesus’s body was wrapped after his death.
  — Mike Fillon, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
• The stealthy turn of events cast a shroud of doubt and mystery around Kumar’s future.
  — Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2022
• The child’s remains were wrapped in a shroud adorned with more than 60 beads and four pendants, all of which were made out of shells.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2021
• Current aeroshells, or heat shields, in use depend on the size of a rocket’s shroud.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
• For one, the tips of the fan blades are all connected with a circular shroud.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 12 July 2023
• His chute formed a shroud around his body, and his ejection seat sat some 50 yards above him on the hillside.
  — Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 5 Jan. 2021
• Alongside the chalk drum in the grave was long bone pin, which might have held a shroud in place, and a clay ball, that a child might play with.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
• Prepare the fan shroud using the second sheet of cardboard.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 16 Sep. 2021
• The body is placed in blanket, shroud or biodegradable container and is placed in soil or the ground.
  — Erica Lamberg, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
• In that column, a Catholic reader asked me why Jews are buried in a white shroud and placed in a plain pine box.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
• Its main feature, though, is the large shroud that covers the PCB, which is available in black or white.
  — Antony Leather, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• The image above shows the entire United States and the shroud of smoke that hangs over the majority of it.
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2020
• There’s a heavy mist in the air that has swept in from over the Atlantic Ocean, up the Hudson and is now covering us like a shroud.
  — Eileen Murphy Donnersberger, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• And that means that the fan blades can be held in tension between the hub they are attached to at their base, and the shroud, or rim, at their tips.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 12 July 2023
• The society’s members wash the corpse, dress it in burial clothes, and cover it with a shroud.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
• According to the report, in lieu of a casket, Dye was buried in a simple white shroud.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 3 June 2020
• Or did that promise from our founders get lost in a shroud of federal tear gas?
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2020

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shroud

2 of 2 verb

• The mountains were shrouded in fog.
• Their work is shrouded in secrecy.
• In one room, what appeared to be a body shrouded in blankets lay on the floor.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
• But the counselors noticed a big problem: The other side of the lake was shrouded in a haze of smoke.
  — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
• The neighborhood was shrouded in gray, and wind was hurling embers, leaves and dirt in the air.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• They are shrouded in secrecy in a way adult courts are not.
  — Meribah Knight, ProPublica, 26 Oct. 2023
• Much of the deal is shrouded in secrecy, including the date of the hostages’ return.
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 Aug. 2023
• Stop doom-scrolling and shroud yourself for a couple hours in the mysteries and pleasures of Over the Garden Wall.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
• The plan for a utopian Bay Area city was shrouded in secrecy.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• But his new friend, Shelly, doesn’t seem to mind it at all, because their house is shrouded in darkness.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 8 May 2023
• Gaon’s front yard and its debris were long shrouded in a phalanx of tall plants, bushes and large trees.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• As a rule, Putin has sought to shroud his actions in at least quasi-legal reasoning.
  — Maxim Krupskiy, Fortune, 17 July 2023
• The most extreme storms happen every few years and shroud the entire planet in a haze for months.
  — Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2022
• Met Gala For the most part, the origins of Swift and Alwyn’s relationship has been shrouded in a lot of mystery.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2023
• It's designed with a loose enough silhouette to shroud your frame and offer that trendy, oversized fit.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
• Fear not, Ellen: Before this evening is over, nothing will be shrouded and everything will be out in the open.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2023
• While these broad strokes of the case are well established, many of its details will be shrouded—and some got suppressed long ago.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2023
• Restaurants and bars deploy fans and misters, shrouding their patios in a cool fog.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
• When one Uranian pole is facing the sun, the other is shrouded in a cold, dark, 21-year-long winter.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• But the suspect is not believed to be the original thief, and mystery still shrouds the heist of the centuries-old artifact.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The decision to use the app is shrouded in party secrecy.
  — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 5 Feb. 2020
• The rough is thick, even more because of the dampness from a marine layer expected to shroud Harding Park all week.
  — Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
• Muttering to himself, Hadreas wormed around the stage, lap danced the knotted chair, crawled under it, threw it aside, still shrouded.
  — Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
• Winter is not a good time to visit when clouds can often shroud the landscape, and the hot summer is often packed with tourists.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• It's only expected that you'll be shrouded in clothes until the first signs of spring show themselves.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Feb. 2023
• The image of her shrouded in an immaculate faux-fur coat while walking her dogs in over-the-knee heeled boots brings Le City bang up to date for now.
  — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2024
• But seriously, what happens if the sun is shrouded by clouds?
  — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2024
• The instinct to shroud one’s jealousy in social justice rhetoric is familiar.
  — Cat Zhang, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• And just as the brightest headlight can be blocked by a thick fog, the first stars in the universe were shrouded by their immediate surroundings.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
• The process of creating a fragrance is often shrouded in mystery.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024