Example sentences for: shrouded

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

  • At the New York performance, the Israeli singer Esti Kenan Ofri spent most of the time shrouded in drapery and darkness at the foot of the podium, slowly rising and writhing only for the keening solo that ends the piece, a recitative redolent of Middle Eastern rites.

  • It's easy to see what drew Lukas to the Steunenberg episode: a tale of murder that is still shrouded in mystery; along with a long-forgotten cause

  • A tightly wrapped head, with encapsulated eyes, nose, and mouth, doubtless suited the publicly shrouded female of antiquity, whose intelligence flowered wholly unseen.

  • Bavaud's martyrdom had been shrouded in silence by the Swiss authorities during the war, but it was now to be commemorated with a plaque on the house in Neuchâtel where he was born.

  • Huge sections of their daily lives (and particularly why they came to abandon their cities) are still shrouded in mystery, but great strides have been made in deciphering their hieroglyphs and stelae (inscribed stone pillars).


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