Example sentences for: veil

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

  • Picturesque images are often captured in names, as in Bridal Veil Falls in Utah, or Teapot Dome in Wyoming.

  • A woman dressed in a blue veil or the blue habit of a nun who appeared to help the sick and the afflicted during the seventeenth century.

  • The Niagara River divides in fact into two major cascades around Goat Island: to the east, American Falls (61 m/184 ft high with a crestline of 350 m/1,076 ft) and to the west, the more dramatic Canadian Horseshoe Falls (58 m/177 ft high with a curving crestline of 670 m/2,214 ft), and a smaller cascade off to the side, known as Bridal Veil.

  • 140 A.D.) who, Pagel writes, describes the vision that “descended upon him ...in the form of a woman” who says to him, “I wish to show you Truth herself; for I have brought her down from above, so that you may see her without a veil, and understand her beauty.”

  • A more appealing aspect of Posner's philosophy is his belief that judges base their opinions on "guesses" and personal ideology, while hiding behind a veil of precedent.


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