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Example sentences for: veil

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

It was a background, as I imagine it, that led naturally to the Malamudian insight that visible life is a veil, behind which can be glimpsed, by means of sympathetic insight, a vaster and more beautiful reality.
Like the original veil, it serves to create the conditions of female modesty.
This quasimodern Islamic "veil" makes a self-conscious religious point in a secular society.
There you see breathtakingly pure and candid golden hair, flowing down from the Virgin's head in a natural veil, suggesting the descending rays of an ultimate blessing from above.
"I'll believe that you still love me/ when you wear your veil of white," Williams wrote in 1949.