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Sentence count:225+10Posted:2016-09-12Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: camouflagecloakconcealcoverdisguiseeclipsehidemaskobscurescreenAntonym: unveilSimilar words: surveillanceceilingcave ingive inbelieve inMeaning: [veɪl]  n. 1. a garment that covers the head and face 2. the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) 3. a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl. v. 1. to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil 2. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing. 
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61 She said nothing, but she met his gaze fully and did not veil her own.
62 She gave him her veil, which would keep him from harm as long as he was in the sea.
63 St Agatha was lifted from the sofa and stationed at the window in a bridal veil, to the electrification of passers-by.
64 The fundamentalist opposition movements that extol the veil are reactivating this age-old connection.
65 She watches me through a black veil that hangs from a black hat.
66 Her hair had been braided and was concealed under a heart-shaped silver head-dress with a transparent white veil.
67 Neville leant forward to replace the glass and his nose cleaved through the veil of shadow,(http://sentencedict.com/veil.html) a stark white triangle.
68 Behind a veil of revolutionary rhetoric, the Council of People's Commissars suppressed the masses' striving for liberty.
69 What is behind a hijab, the veil that means a barrier?
70 She had made a gesture in the direction of decency by wearing a veil, behind which she sat disdainfully.
71 One wears a burqa, the black veil, the other a colourful scarf.
72 A simple gold circlet held the veil in place, beneath which guileless blue eyes shone with a gentle womanly strength.
73 Judges present decisions behind the veil of abstract principle which often conceals the naked face of consequentialist considerations of loss distribution.
74 The presence of a bodyguard was a constant reminder of the invisible veil which separated her from her family and friends.
75 Steam from the water had clouded the mirrors in the bathroom; condensation had formed a dewy veil over the tiles.
76 Veil and calf cuts are much more expensive than beef and pork cuts.
77 Suddenly, hideously, the world had become a mask - a paper-thin veil behind which lay another nightmare world.
78 She put on a red petticoat first, then a black dress, and a white veil over the dress.
79 But once in a while, when her veil drops, it arouses other emotions.
80 He had apparently recovered from his visit to Johanna, hiding his feelings behind the usual veil of secrecy.
81 Dundee began to disappear behind a white veil while Chick drank his way steadily down the half-bottle.
82 Everything upon which her eyes focused was obscured by a heavy veil.
83 To save money, Helen rented a Western-style, white gown with a matching veil.
84 The food is dumpling-based, substantial, and it would be kinder to draw a veil over the indigenous wine lake.
85 Finite is still feeling through the veil, examining the naked inner reality with a gloved hand.
86 Like Matilda, she had worn the veil, probably for several years; but she too had never taken religious vows.
87 Despite the obscuring veil of time, many researchers can make out the traces of the Supercontinent Cycle in the Precambrian.
88 An old ghost mouthing curses behind a cloudy, nylon veil.
89 She was dressed in a dark blue gown, the white veil hiding her beautiful chestnut hair.
90 Once this had been established, the aim of Marx's work was to break through this veil of ideology.
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