Examples of veiling in a Sentence
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One of the most prominent of the newer crop, twenty-six-year-old Estee Williams, started making content in 2022; her TikToks on hair curling and Christian veiling soon reached hundreds of thousands of viewers.
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Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
Some women activists took up the black chador and veiling as emblems of rebellion.
—Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
But then a series of incidents, including street clashes between supporters and opponents of the compulsory veiling followed by the detention and death of Amini, upended any possibility that Raisi’s government could simply keep a lid on tensions between the state and Iranian society.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2022
The Islamic Republic has made the decision not to formally relax the veiling laws, even in the face of a rising tide of popular anger.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2022
Think: fedoras with silk organza flora, plume headbands, soft layers of French veiling, and oversize silk moire bows.
—ELLE, 7 June 2023
Authorities have installed surveillance cameras in public places recently to catch violators of mandatory veiling.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
During the 1979 revolution, veiling became a symbol of resistance to the Pahlavi monarchy that ruled from 1925 to 1979.
—Amy Motlagh, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2022
Iranian women, many of them young women, and their supporters have been rising up against mandatory veiling, economic corruption and mismanagement, and 43 years of militant Islamist repression.
—Hamid Dabashi, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
Some women activists took up the black chador and veiling as emblems of rebellion.
—Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
But then a series of incidents, including street clashes between supporters and opponents of the compulsory veiling followed by the detention and death of Amini, upended any possibility that Raisi’s government could simply keep a lid on tensions between the state and Iranian society.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2022
The Islamic Republic has made the decision not to formally relax the veiling laws, even in the face of a rising tide of popular anger.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2022
Think: fedoras with silk organza flora, plume headbands, soft layers of French veiling, and oversize silk moire bows.
—ELLE, 7 June 2023
Authorities have installed surveillance cameras in public places recently to catch violators of mandatory veiling.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
During the 1979 revolution, veiling became a symbol of resistance to the Pahlavi monarchy that ruled from 1925 to 1979.
—Amy Motlagh, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2022
Iranian women, many of them young women, and their supporters have been rising up against mandatory veiling, economic corruption and mismanagement, and 43 years of militant Islamist repression.
—Hamid Dabashi, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
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“Veiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veiling. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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