How to Use shroud in a Sentence

shroud

1 of 2 noun
  • But -- but the shroud has not come down.
    — ABC News, 14 June 2026
  • Rows of corpses wrapped in white shrouds were piled up out front.
    — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • When Christ was born, he would have been wrapped in a shroud.
    — Beth Hoeltke, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2022
  • This white sheet, this white flag, a shroud instead of the sun?
    — Abe Beame, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Air is drawn in through the shroud and passed over both of these filters.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2022
  • One man is covered with a bloody white shroud inside a body bag.
    — Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Next, unwrap your headless body from its shroud.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Clouds hugged the mountaintops, fell around them like a shroud.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The first month’s salary is for the uniform; the second month’s, for the shroud.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Each one took turns tucking Ali’s body, now wrapped in a white shroud, in their arms.
    — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
  • There is a shroud of secrecy over the scripts themselves.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Or did that promise from our founders get lost in a shroud of federal tear gas?
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Current aeroshells, or heat shields, in use depend on the size of a rocket’s shroud.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • For one, the tips of the fan blades are all connected with a circular shroud.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 12 July 2023
  • 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
  • Instead, the person is buried in a biodegradable casket or shroud.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The stealthy turn of events cast a shroud of doubt and mystery around Kumar’s future.
    — Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Several of the stars didn’t look like stars at all, but were instead enveloped by a dim shroud.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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 plastic bodywork has been sharpened all around, too, with the tank shrouds now reaching the front forks.
    — New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
  • On the horizon appears a woolly shroud of smoke from a distant wildfire.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The burial shroud is white and has basic stitching, no zippers and no pockets.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The increase has put a shroud of stress around holiday travel and planning.
    — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2021
  • This was a fugitive sensibility with a shroud of shame around it.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The gray bacterial cloud surrounds the coral like a shroud, settling on it.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
  • Decades of space exploration have left a shroud of space junk enveloping Earth.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2021

shroud

2 of 2 verb
  • The mountains were shrouded in fog.
  • Their work is shrouded in secrecy.
  • The whole process was shrouded in mystery to me.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But the process is still shrouded in mystery.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But a colonoscopy doesn’t have to be shrouded in mystery.
    — Holly Burns, Time, 6 May 2026
  • This one, though, is shrouded by scandal.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But even that only score was shrouded in a bit of head-scratching.
    — Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • As the kayakers reached the end, dense fog shrouded the river.
    — The Editors, Outside, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The case has been shrouded in mystery ever since.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The chain of transactions can shroud donors from public view.
    — Stephanie Murray, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Their faces shrouded in an aura of sorrow.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Close’s Delacroix is shrouded in mystery.
    — Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Much of Taylor’s life is shrouded in mystery and myth.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026
  • For too long, the cost of prescriptions has been shrouded in mystery.
    — Wendy Barnes, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The trail narrows and starts to ascend up a hillside, at first shrouded in shady oak trees.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The source of FXTs has been shrouded in mystery.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Restaurants and bars deploy fans and misters, shrouding their patios in a cool fog.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • At first, there were many aspects shrouded in secrecy, which left me full of questions.
    — Billboard Korea, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • For instance, their masses are shrouded in mystery.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Yorke and Donwood have long kept their process shrouded in secrecy.
    — Zoe Si, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The origins of Hepburn's true name are shrouded in mystery.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • As a compromise, Nico has taken one of the lamps back and set it on the floor, shrouded with his own shirt.
    — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • As a compromise, Nico has taken one of the lamps back and set it on the floor, shrouded with his own shirt.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The exact details of the plan have been shrouded in confusion since reports of it first emerged.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Much of the deal is shrouded in secrecy, including the date of the hostages’ return.
    — The Editors, National Review, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The next few days of Short’s life leading up to her murder have been shrouded in some degree of mystery.
    — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The full extent of his involvement is still shrouded in secrecy.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But the part of the building once covered with letters spelling the president’s name is now shrouded in a tarp.
    — Steven Sloan, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • But the part of the building once covered with letters spelling the president's name is now shrouded in a tarp.
    — ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • To understand why that shrouds a black hole in mystery, consider how no signal can travel faster than light.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 June 2026

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