How to Use cloak in a Sentence

cloak

1 of 2 noun
  • Their plans were shrouded in a cloak of secrecy.
  • Priests with brown cloaks and long hoods walked through it.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Got to walk around the highlands in a red cloak.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Much of the year, the islands are covered in a cloak of clouds.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Simple clothes hang loose, such as capes, cloaks or loincloths.
    — Ian Gilligan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Peylak’s cloak was intense with earth tones.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The wispy hairs on his head were singed to a stubble and his cloak was smoking.
    — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • Her cloak and scarf have been tossed across the foot of the bed on the other side of the room.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • Some rumors say the wizard will use the cloak to catch Spidey.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The motif on the out- side of the cloak is very much suggested by two things.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Bats don’t just sneak under the cloak of night, evading the human eye.
    — Calista Oetama, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But Lucas, who wore clip-on pointy ears along with his costume of a brown cloak.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Benedict’s body was dressed with a miter, the peaked headgear of a bishop, and a red cloak.
    — Time, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Later, upon her return, a man in a hooded cloak stands in her path.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
  • As recently as last year, Osbourne had no plans to hang up his cloak.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Everybody else gets to make their mistakes in the cloak of darkness at your house.
    — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
  • While working on some magic, Wong spills some tuna melt on the cloak.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Its right half will be bathed in sunlight and its left hidden beneath a cloak of shadow.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • This Halloween costume includes the full suit with a cloak, gloves and pants.
    — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In other words, this ancient owl didn’t stalk its prey under the cloak of darkness.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 25 May 2022
  • The afterlight of dusk would settle around me like a cloak, and the deer would start making their way down to drink.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Peylak’s cloak and Varang’s costume each took four months to create.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
  • If the puzzle book was to enter the world stark-naked, the two men would duck beneath a cloak of pseudonymity.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
  • More than anything else, the game Sunday was played in a cloak of secrecy.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The off-white cloak caked in clay is deliberately drained of all color.
    — Emma Fraser, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The kitchen includes a large island and a breakfast area close to a cloak and powder room nearby.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
  • Louise Donegan, my wife, [has] been working on my look for a couple of years, like the cloak thing.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • With no more than ten feet between us, Death stands immobile, garbed in a dirty, dusty cloak with a hood.
    — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The furtive nature of the internet is rife with cloak-and-dagger attacks.
    — Yec, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Under the right conditions, a thin coating formed outside each droplet, like a cloak.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022

cloak

2 of 2 verb
  • The midwife came, cloaked in red.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Each depicts a man, cloaked in a robe, with an amulet around his neck.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The building jolts and is cloaked in blackness.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • Part of the great tomb was once cloaked in granite blocks rather than limestone.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
  • One barrel is cloaked in a red bible cover, the other in a black one.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 26 May 2026
  • In the Razr images, though, the phone is cloaked in darkness.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Its trunk was later cloaked in pastel pink and green streamers.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Above it a church spire stuck like a slate spike through a hill cloaked in a green corduroy of vineyards.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
  • Rather, the researchers suggest that thick grey clouds cloak the planets.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Sausage—stuffed with gooey cheese—is served in tacos cloaked with aromatic salsas.
    — Kayla Stewart, Bon Appétit, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But if things get messy, panels slide shut to cloak the back kitchen from main living areas.
    — Sally Finder Weepie, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
  • The construction method is still cloaked in mystery.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
  • On Sunday morning it was cloaked in a dense layer of fog.
    — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2026
  • His purple gown cloaked around his shoulders and a tassel swung from the cap perched atop his red-curly hair.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
  • And tragedy seems to cloak the city in an unshakable heaviness.
    — Star Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Who was the first to cloak themselves in darkness and smear black lipstick onto their face?
    — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The leaves that cloak a ginkgo’s graceful branches in summer are unique.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Above all else, this meant the polar regions, which remained cloaked in mystery.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Pedestrians cloaked in rain gear are running for cover.
    — Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But largely, the band would rather cloak its songs in layers of audio distractions.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • Those using and abusing anonymous shells to cloak themselves in anonymity run the gamut.
    — Morris Pearl, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • The pleats hit at the ideal spot to cloak my lower stomach area, and the A-line fit didn’t cling to my hips.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The consistency should cloak the whisk or your finger but slide off, like a loose runny yogurt.
    — Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 June 2021
  • It was conducted in August when much of the nation was cloaked in wildfire smoke and news.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Colorado needs a strong secretary of state who will cloak themselves in non-partisan facts.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 1 June 2026
  • If so, the x-ray and radio outbursts from these objects would be cloaked behind dense cocoons of ionized gas.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Like many of Grownkid’s events, today’s potluck was designed to grab attention, and cloaked in a thin veil of irony.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
  • How can schools build more resilient children and break the silence cloaking school harassment?
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Out from their hiding places, those dark corners of frustration, where they have been cloaked in anger and apathy.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • After all, no one pictures a futuristic city cloaked in exhaust fumes.
    — Alex Hewitt, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026

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