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Shrouds in sentence

14 examples of Shrouds in a sentence

The cutting in the movie is very good and emphasizes the mystique that shrouds around the anti-hero and male protagonist: "Riddick."
This outcry should mark the start of a global movement to lift the veil of silence that shrouds violence against women – which often begins at home – and protects the perpetrators.
Jonathan Swift’s eighteenth-century barb resonates in today’s world of financial “intermediation”: now, as then, finance shrouds its “complication of knavery and cozenage” in “unintelligible jargon.”
Roosting in the shrouds, the crew examined the horizon, which shrank and darkened little by little.
We were in the presence of a ship whose severed shrouds still hung from their clasps.
Those poor men leaped up into the shrouds, clung to the masts, writhed beneath the waters.
Did ever a vessel come out of Toulon as my 38-gun frigate did from Plymouth last year, with her masts rolling about until her shrouds were like iron bars on one side and hanging in festoons upon the other?
They were light and active, and Pencroft, as a sailor, accustomed to run up the masts and shrouds, was able to give them lessons.
To the sails were attached strong bolt ropes, and there still remained enough from which to make the halyards, shrouds, and sheets, etc.
A few more on the poop; two others posted in the shrouds, and armed with spyglasses, were attentively surveying the island.
However, the two masts, which had been broken and escaped from the shrouds and stays came up, and with their sails, some furled and the others spread.
"Wouldst thou indeed have done this justice to the name of Torquil?" said Ulrica, for we may now lay aside her assumed name of Urfried; "thou art then the true Saxon report speaks thee! for even within these accursed walls, where, as thou well sayest, guilt shrouds itself in inscrutable mystery, even there has the name of Cedric been sounded--and I, wretched and degraded, have rejoiced to think that there yet breathed an avenger of our unhappy nation.--I
Ships were due from Brazil, from La Plata, from Chiliand Japan, two Danish brigs, a Norwegian schooner, and a Turkishsteamship--which startled Pierre as much as if it had read a Swisssteamship; and in a whimsical vision he pictured a great vessel crowdedwith men in turbans climbing the shrouds in loose trousers.
James Playfair, leaving the young girl, immediately sprang to the shrouds of the mainmast.