Example sentences for: veils

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

  • Wallace, the profile argues, claimed to have repudiated racism but used issues such as crime and welfare as veils for old-school segregationist politics.

  • The WP 's lead leaves the impression that the Afghan people resent many of the Taliban's practices, particularly the mandatory veils for women and the ban on music.

  • The hat itself was a male invention and a male privilege until women got tired of coifs, veils, and wimples in the Renaissance.

  • He describes Muslims on a flight from Bahrain using the plane's global positioning system to pray toward Mecca, Kuwaiti feminists in veils and on the Internet, Kayapo Indians in a hut in the Brazilian rain forest watching soccer and monitoring the value of their gold-extraction rights on a satellite TV.


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