How to Use veiling in a Sentence

veiling

noun

• These were hats made out of veiling which went on top of your beehive.
  — Laura Jacobs, Vanities, 9 May 2018
• Some women activists took up the black chador and veiling as emblems of rebellion.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• In this piece, there are references to that body of work, obviously, with the veiling.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• That one, from the get-go, was no veiling — no gradually parsing out and meting out the fear and the story.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
• The traditional veiling ceremony began, which most of the guests watched through their phones.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• This is also frequently cited as a virtue of Islamic veiling.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Mar. 2020
• Iran has compulsory veiling laws and women have been sent to jail for protesting the law, requiring hijab's to be worn by women in public.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 21 July 2022
• In mid-December, the government suspended a pending law that would have led to severe enforcement of veiling.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The mannequins wearing Lowe are shadowed by masked figures cloaked in ethereal black veiling, a nod to the ancestral costumes of West Africa known as Egungun.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 15 May 2022
• The unrest over the issue of mandatory veiling for women has come to symbolize wider anger against the Iranian government and has been met with a violent crackdown by authorities.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
• Authorities have installed surveillance cameras in public places recently to catch violators of mandatory veiling.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
• Satrapi’s story of mandatory veiling, of girls and women forced into a double life in the wake of the 1979 Revolution, deeply resonated with my own experience.
  — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
• Male guardians of this ideological camp circulated defamatory letters from prison, denouncing me for unveiling and rebelling against mandatory veiling.
  — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
• But veiling was no longer just a physical marker of religious or cultural difference—it was also seen as an affront to assimilation, a visible symbol of resistance to colonization.
  — Time, 19 May 2021
• Tajzadeh supports free elections, opposes mandatory veiling for women and other repressive policies, and backs diplomatic rapprochement with the United States.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2025
• The role of the morality police, which enforces veiling laws, came under scrutiny after a detainee, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, died in its custody in mid-September.
  — Jack Jeffery, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2022
• The two Muslim women—one a Belgian national, the other Moroccan—who had brought the case to court argued that the ban violates the rights of veiling-wearing women to religious freedom and privacy.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2010
• During the 2021 presidential campaign, for example, women who did not adhere to traditional veiling practices appeared in pro-Raisi advertisements.
  — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2024
• 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