How to Use wreathe in a Sentence

wreathe

verb

• The walls of the cavern, wreathed in flowstone, glittered in brown and gray.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 27 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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
• Ghostly villagers assembled, silent and wreathed with smoke as their buildings burned and burned.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017
• 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
• And a few doors down, a towering shaman-like figure wreathed in strings of multicolored beads cradles a conch close to his mouth, eyes closed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019
• Raissa and Mariam take it all in -- wreathes heavy with ornaments, chandeliers, ablaze with light.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 24 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Her pyrotechnic blondeness, with its cascade of dark roots, wreathed her face like a spray of goldenrod.
  — David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
• One of the best and most distinctive albums this year sounded like a falling anvil wreathed in flames.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 16 Dec. 2025
• 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 man stood there, his face wreathed in smoke from the cigarette between his lips.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
• In the low light, rocky walls loom, wreathed in fog from the hot water.
  — Brienne Walsh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025