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
• Like the men, the women all wore overalls, shapeless shrouds of dark denim.
  — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
• 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

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
• In one room, what appeared to be a body shrouded in blankets lay on the floor.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Gaon’s front yard and its debris were long shrouded in a phalanx of tall plants, bushes and large trees.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• The source of FXTs has been shrouded in mystery.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• The most extreme storms happen every few years and shroud the entire planet in a haze for months.
  — Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The neighborhood was shrouded in gray, and wind was hurling embers, leaves and dirt in the air.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• As a rule, Putin has sought to shroud his actions in at least quasi-legal reasoning.
  — Maxim Krupskiy, Fortune, 17 July 2023
• 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
• But seriously, what happens if the sun is shrouded by clouds?
  — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2024
• It's designed with a loose enough silhouette to shroud your frame and offer that trendy, oversized fit.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The exact details of the plan have been shrouded in confusion since reports of it first emerged.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025