shrouds 1 of 2

plural of shroud

shrouds

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verb

present tense third-person singular of shroud
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of shrouds
Noun
Smoke from western wildfires shrouds downtown buildings with the Cheyenne Mountain in the background on August 12 in Colorado Springs. Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025 The plastic bodywork has been sharpened all around, too, with the tank shrouds now reaching the front forks. New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrouds
Noun
  • The above-and-beyond production design and costumes are filled with both period-appropriate lushness and totally idiosyncratic touches, like sarcophagi that showcase the naked faces of the dead and several flowing gowns that resemble full-length veils.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • One through line between the films and the series are the headdresses, veils and hair jewelry.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Guests arrive via a winding, jungle-like path that conceals the building from view until the final turn, when the view suddenly opens to a giant round portico, four stories high and 120 feet across that appears to float despite its 3,000-ton weight.
    Katharina Kotrba, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Find those iconic horses emblazoned in silver onto the oakwood base of their Dry Air Diffuser, which conceals a discrete fan and ventilation system.
    Austa Somvichian-Clausen, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The delicate curtain slightly obscures a digital color photograph of a drawing by a museum employee reimagining Picasso’s painting.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Relatively high coverage at the national and state levels obscures the fact that in some local areas, vaccine coverage is low due to high numbers of exemptions, putting clusters of children at greater risk of disease.
    Simon Williams, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The case also wraps around all four side of the iPhone, with the same elevated lip that protects the screen.
    Ben Sin, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This technology uses a polymer that wraps around each lash to create a tube, which can make lashes look longer and flake less.
    Elizabeth Denton, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While invisibility cloaks are a gee-whiz application, metamaterials now offer real-world commercial applications such as new antenna technologies for mobile phones.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2018
Verb
  • The fog may roll in, but the coastline never hides for long.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Maddie hides her binging and purging from Deena and Jake, lying about being pregnant to distract her husband from what’s really going on.
    Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For all their evident overlap, the two marketplaces serve different crowds — even as the boundary between art and design blurs (Basic.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Alcohol blurs a person's judgment, reaction time and abilities.
    Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Cloître Saint-Trophime envelops viewers in ancient stone and filtered light, a living monument to time’s passage.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Shrouds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrouds. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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