How to Use enshroud in a Sentence

enshroud

verb
  • The moon, which is about the size of Mercury, has long been enshrouded in mystery.
    — Charlie Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The song is enshrouded in mystery, both in terms of its strange figures, and in terms of tone and sonics.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2019
  • At that point, reports indicate that either a smoke or tear-gas bomb went off, enshrouding the area.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Outside, stone stairs lead to a swimming pool enshrouded in verdant landscaping.
    — Jack Flemming, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
  • In it, four women clad in bikini-like costumes danced with their faces invisible, enshrouded in hair.
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 14 June 2019
  • The comet will pass so close that its coma (glowing envelope) will enshroud the planet and perhaps noticeably alter its atmosphere.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2014
  • While those other scientists plumbed the mysteries of the atom, Ault studied the invisible magnetic forces that enshroud our planet.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
  • But what lasts long after the credits roll is the movie’s quiet beauty, the iridescent sheen of an oil slick that enshrouds the narrative and the moments of near silence preceding terrifying noise.
    — Eliza Berman, Time, 4 June 2018
  • As the car lay on its roof in the right lane, enshrouded in a dirt cloud, a trailing 2017 Honda mistook the cloud for fog and crashed into the left side of the Nissan.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 17 May 2017
  • James rejected the notion that secrecy has enshrouded the KCI discussion.
    — Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 6 Aug. 2017
  • What Harry Potter manages with a flip of his magical cloak, nature does with gravity, only on a scale that enshrouds the substance of an entire star and in some cases more than a million stars.
    — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Vanska seemed determined to emphasize the extremes with large leaps from fortissimo to pianissimo and back, moments of dancing in sunlight quickly enshrouded in thunderous clouds.
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 13 June 2019
  • By the peak of winter, when afternoon light shifted too quickly into darkness, Mullin’s team was enshrouded in an 11-game Big East Conference losing streak.
    — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Suddenly, the border separating Canada from the United States was effectively enshrouded in fog.
    — Peter S. Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2018
  • The satellite presentation on Day 6 shows a deeply disconnected system, with the mid- and upper-level vortex completely enshrouded in dry air, and warm sector/warm conveyor/rain corridor displaced hundreds of miles east.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Among the most striking of the computerized tomography findings are the child enshrouded in a bundle previously thought to contain only an adult and the similarity among small figures wrapped with Egyptian and Peruvian dead.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • These are all developments that were promised in the last election, a fact thoroughly disguised by the superficial controversies that regularly enshroud Washington (including the current Ukrainian nonsense).
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • In the 1960s physicist Freeman Dyson postulated that advanced, energy-hungry civilizations might enshroud their home stars in solar collectors—later called Dyson spheres—to absorb practically all of a star's light.
    — Kimberly Cartier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017

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