VEIL in a Sentence

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For VEIL, below is one of 203 sentences:
As she watched him through the veil of her lashes he turned her hand over, palm up, to kiss it too, and suddenly he drew a quick breath.

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 Meanings and Examples of VEIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
veil
 n.  a length of cloth worn by women over the head, shoulders, and often the face; cover; hide
Classic Sentence: (189 in 13 pages)
1  They had reached the point where the road dipped to the hollow by Ethan's mill and as they descended the darkness descended with them, dropping down like a black veil from the heavy hemlock boughs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  And the black crepe veil on her bonnet had to reach to her knees, and only after three years of widowhood could it be shortened to shoulder length.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Scarlett stood on the lower step of the train, a pale pretty figure in her black mourning dress, her crepe veil fluttering almost to her heels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Rhett, hearing of this from Melanie, brought in from England yards and yards of gleaming white satin and a lace veil and presented them to her as a wedding gift.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  He liked bright colors and Scarlett's funeral dresses and the crepe veil that hung from her bonnet to her heels both amused him and offended him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  But she clung to her dull black dresses and her veil, knowing that if she changed them for colors without waiting several more years, the town would buzz even more than it was already buzzing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  Rhett said frankly that the crepe veil made her look like a crow and the black dresses added ten years to her age.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  And better taste than to wear that veil to advertise a grief I'm sure you never felt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  As she watched him through the veil of her lashes he turned her hand over, palm up, to kiss it too, and suddenly he drew a quick breath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  She paused before the mantelpiece, studying herself in the mirror while she adjusted her veil.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
11  She was before the mirror again, adjusting her hair with a light hand, drawing down her veil, and giving a dexterous touch to her furs.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
12  Gerty had tried to veil her failure in tender ambiguities; but Carry, always the soul of candour, put the case squarely to her friend.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
13  The external aspect of the situation had vanished for him as completely as for her: he felt it only as one of those rare moments which lift the veil from their faces as they pass.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
14  A woman with a broadtail coat, a heavy lace veil, pearl earrings, and a close black hat entered the restaurant.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  For Lima has taken the white veil; and there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
Example Sentence:
1  A veil of mist obscured the view.
2  It would dishonour my family if I didn't wear the veil.
3  Their work is carried out behind a veil of secrecy.
4  Yes, well I think we'll just draw a veil over what went on last night.
5  She lifted her veil with both hands.
6  It would be better to draw a veil over what happened next.
7  She's got long fair hair but she's got a veil over it.
8  After the ceremony, the bride lifted up her veil to kiss her husband.
9  The government and parliament are trying to put a veil on social and economic problems.
10  I will attire my Jane in satin and lace, and she shall have roses in her hair; and I will cover the head I love best with a priceless veil.
11  In America, Benazir Bhutto dressed as Western women did; in Pakistan, however, she followed the mores of her people, dressing in traditional veil and robes.
12  In many Muslim countries, the women wear veils.
13  He made only a veiled reference to international concerns over human rights issues.
14  They warned him with veiled threats not to mention anything he had witnessed.