Example sentences for: veil

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

  • Like the original veil, it serves to create the conditions of female modesty.

  • Will Clinton invoke executive privilege to veil conversations about the alleged hanky-panky with Monica?

  • I laughed out loud when I got to the part where the author insisted that although the "girls" (uh, we're known as women here in the Islamic world, too) "claimed" they weren't oppressed by the veil, they, like, really were.

  • 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.

  • This quasimodern Islamic "veil" makes a self-conscious religious point in a secular society.


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