How to Use wreathe in a Sentence

wreathe

verb
  • In the low light, rocky walls loom, wreathed in fog from the hot water.
    — Brienne Walsh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The walls of the cavern, wreathed in flowstone, glittered in brown and gray.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The man stood there, his face wreathed in smoke from the cigarette between his lips.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Brandoniya lay in a small casket, white wreathed in pale pink, with a glimmering tiara atop her head.
    — Sarah Sarder, Dallas News, 25 May 2010
  • One of the best and most distinctive albums this year sounded like a falling anvil wreathed in flames.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Less enticing, though, is the way the play wreathes Agnes in mysticism.
    — Rhoda Feng, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Ghostly villagers assembled, silent and wreathed with smoke as their buildings burned and burned.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017
  • In the bathroom, there are shuttered windows wreathed with Como silk and a luscious roll-top bath.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Her pyrotechnic blondeness, with its cascade of dark roots, wreathed her face like a spray of goldenrod.
    — David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Their grave boxes still smell like fresh paint and are wreathed in plastic flowers, propped up on blocks on the cemetery's highest ground, at least for now.
    — Author: Teresa Cotsirilos, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Raissa and Mariam take it all in -- wreathes heavy with ornaments, chandeliers, ablaze with light.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Previous spacecraft had had to carry their crews up through the buffeting atmosphere and bring them back down through it wreathed in fire.
    — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 4 June 2019
  • The walk up the steps to the Royal Box after the game, the losing team’s faces locked in grief, the winners’ wreathed in smiles.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 May 2017
  • Solaris Plaza turns into an outdoor ice-skating rink festooned with twinkling lights and wreathed by restaurants and firepits.
    — Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The sculptures depict four seated African women, wreathed or constrained in what appear to be coiling vines, and with flat mirror-like disks in front of their faces.
    — Daniel Gelernter, National Review, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Then, in the distance, a camera flash lit up a hellish sight—wreathed in the smoke from village fires, a great black pipe organ, as tall as the houses on either side, heaved and rolled across the square.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 21 Dec. 2025
  • When Fawcett returns after one expedition, the front of his English house is wreathed in creepers, as if the tendrils of vines had spread across the sea.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Marinated salmon and confit artichoke arrived wreathed in smoke under a glass cloche to heighten our attention to umami.
    — Gemma Price, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Residents looked on in awe as atmospheric friction brought on by the blistering speed of re-entry wreathed the capsule's heat shield in glowing plasma.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • There’s no bad sightline in the space, from either the ground floor or upper level balcony, which looks out over a stage wreathed in pink neon and wood cutouts evoking the industrial cityscape outside.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Out in the parking lot, wreathed in the citrusy odor of the sunscreen four young men are slathering on their torsos before heading across Ocean Avenue, some of those who've opted out explain why.
    — Time, 29 June 2017
  • On the day of the wedding, the gateway outside of the First Congregational Church was wreathed with pink peonies, a special surprise from Miles’s parents.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Along the way Maddin works his way through his usual bag of tricks—irises, feverish superimpositions, texts introducing the characters, figures wreathed in electronic snow.
    — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 1 May 2018
  • Campaigners accused the government of doing too little, as dramatic footage showed the area off Balikpapan in the province of East Kalimantan wreathed in thick black smoke after the oil caught fire over the weekend.
    — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
  • On a hill wreathed in mist above the dark sea that runs between New Zealand’s North and South Islands, Ward and others crossed rugged farmland late on Tuesday night, carrying seven crates in silence by dim red torchlight.
    — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Brash, tireless and in the seclusion of the boardroom wreathed in a cloud of cigar smoke and profanities, Mr Iacocca presented a public image when boss of Chrysler as the patriotic car guy urging his countrymen to buy American.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019

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