Example sentences for: pall

How can you use “pall” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The conservative Jerusalem Post said a pall had been cast over the campaign by the death on Saturday of a Likud campaigner during an altercation with a Labor supporter who had been trying to deface a Netanyahu poster and replace it with one of Barak.

  • He concluded, "Over the longer term, the argument with Russia may cast a pall over further enlargement of Nato--'collateral damage' of the operation against Serbia before it started."

  • Jeans does not deny that—indeed, provides his own quotation from the Pall Mall Gazette of February 15, 1884, (not listed in the OED2e ) to support the architectural reference—but he persists in offering the opinion that because the word is used in association with buildings in Liverpool, this makes it ... likely that the word is of nautical origin.

  • Visitors entering the temple are confronted by a dense pall of smoke from all the burning joss sticks and the incense coils hanging from the ceiling (these will burn for as long as a month).

  • In a 20ish man who never frequented a club in Pall Mall, drank no brandy, squired no acres, rode to no hounds?


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