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How to use cloak in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Cloak means a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood. Example: “Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.”

Examples of cloak by meaning

nounA long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

  • ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

nounA blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

  • Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.

verbTo cover as with or like a cloak.

  • He would hold her, just hold her, while his hands soothed the bare skin of her arms and the delicate fabric that cloaked her shoulders and her back.2008, Bronwyn Jameson, Vows & a Vengeful Groom, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 122

verbTo cover up, hide or conceal.

  • They may cloak the tumor from the immune system, neutralize drugs or help tumors spread through the body.2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times, archived from the...

verbTo render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

  • The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

More sentences with cloak

  • The cloak was shot through with silver threads.From the entry shot
  • He was a tall dark man, cloaked in mystery.From the entry cloaked
  • Similarily, the femosphere possesses intellectual mouthpieces who cloak reactionary perspectives with an intellectual and scientific façade.2025, Cécile Smmons, CTRL HATE DELETE: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It, unnumbered page. From the entry femosphere
  • Dafydd rides alongside, smothered in his travelling cloak with a baggy cat-fur hat on his head.2015, Toby Clements, Winter Pilgrims, →ISBN, page 329. From the entry cat-fur
  • She pulled his cloak—which she had also made—from their sleeping pile.2014, Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry cinqueda
  • We kill our own flesh for spiritual reasons cloaked in patriotism.2013 February 8, Wayne T. Williams, Kissing the Hand of the Dead, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry unbeast
  • The gleam of his silver mail was as brilliant as the scarlet cloak rippling from his shoulders.2013, John R. Fultz, “A Council of Kings”, in Seven Kings (Books of the Shaper; II), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 395. From the entry silver mail
  • No, that indicates a cloaked Romulan vessel with a repulsor beam.2008 February 20, Iarnrod, “Re: WTC Towers: The case for controlled demolition”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet). From the entry repulsor beam
  • Swiss bank accounts) or a cloak for unlawful maneuvers of governmental and corporate institutions.2008, Ursula K. Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet, →ISBN. From the entry billennial
  • Viewing the blood moon as an ominous sign, the Confederates used it to cloak their flight.2006, Georgiana Kotarski, Ghosts of the Southern Tennessee Valley, →ISBN, pages 98–99. From the entry blood moon
  • Over his shoulders was a cloak of blue linen that the evening breeze filled like a sail.2001, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, chapter 27, in Iain Halliday, transl., Alexander: The Sands of Ammon […], London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry baldric
  • “Get your lifebelts!” There was no time to change clothes; each girl grabbed a wrapper and cloak.1999, Kristen Iversen, Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, page 15. From the entry coffeeman
  • The full dress of the regiment included a fur chapka and a full length fur cloak.1998, Krystyna Dobrzyńska-Cantwell, “An Unusual Diplomat”: Dobrzyński Biography, Polish Cultural Foundation, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry chapka
  • The greatest tools of spae-craft seem to have been the staff and the hooded cloak.1994, Kveldúlf Hagan Gundarsson, Teutonic Magic: The Magical & Spiritual Practices of the Germanic Peoples, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN…. From the entry spae-craft
  • Yet I do not do the right I do to make it a cloak for evil.1976, C[harles] P[erry] Stacey, quoting William Lyon Mackenzie King, “Mathilde Grossert”, in A Very Double Life: The Private World of…. From the entry double life
  • I believe the Romulans have developed a cloaking device which renders our tracking sensors useless.1968, Dorothy Catherine Fontana, The Enterprise Incident (Star Trek), season 3, episode 2, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy). From the entry cloaking device
  • Fanny (how much Tom had told her about Fanny) m’ladied her and took her cloak.1939, Gilbert Frankau, Royal Regiment: A Novel of Contemporary Behaviours, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., page 423. From the entry m'lady
  • I had forgotten you.” He threw aside the cloak that lay on the chair and sat down.1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 7. From the entry espy
  • Corinius went on the right, wearing a rich cloak of sky-blue tissue over his shining armour.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 20. From the entry tissue
  • Shouson Hill is a centrepiece of Hong Kong’s Island South area, rising above Deep Water Bay cloaked in lush greenery.2022 September 2, “Extraordinary work by film industry heavyweights Stanley Kwan and Victor Wong depicts the fusion of design and nature…. From the entry Shouson Hill
  • Activist internet culture shrouded what used to be a shadowy intelligence tactic in a new, star-spangled cloak of crypto-libertarianism.2020, Thomas Rid, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare, unnumbered page. From the entry cryptolibertarianism
  • So why not rob these red cloaks?2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry law of the land
  • The origins of the term are indeed cloaked in mystery.2016, Max Shulman, The Feather Merchants: A Novel. From the entry feather merchant
  • Draping a cloak round his crooked figure, he leaned on his cane and shuffled awkwardly to the door.2012, Josephine Cox, Don't Cry Alone, →ISBN. From the entry let's be having you
  • He turned and went back at the call of the messenger, taking some popolo fruit and leaves in his cloak.2011, William D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods, →ISBN. From the entry popolo
  • A horrible nightmare cloaked in the cloth of good.2007, Kathy Steffen, First, There Is a River, →ISBN. From the entry cloth
  • The prevailing style of dress in the early medieval period comprised a léine (tunic) worn under a brat (cloak).2005, Seán Duffy, Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 156. From the entry brat
  • Pausing only to settle his cloak and set his Regent's circlet on his hair, he strode to the rail and waited.2002, Tom Deitz, Warautumn, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry settle
  • Execution, the band's second record, burns with intense weltschmerz, its existential crises cloaked in buoyant instrumental hooks and shimmery arrangements.2002 October, Maya Singer, “Rilo Kiley: The Execution of All Things: Saddle Creek”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 106, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry weltschmerz
  • The Marcher lord was still clad in his ratty black cloak and dented breastplate with its chipped enamel lightning.2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager…. From the entry ratty
  • The paenula, another type of cloak, was less bulky.1999, Glen Warren Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar, Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, Harvard University Press…. From the entry paenula
  • He wrapped himself in a heavy cloak and went out from his sleeping chamber into the tomblike silence of the castle.1994, Terry Brooks, The Talismans of Shannara. From the entry tomblike
  • When night falls, she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness.1991, Varg Vikernes, “Dunkelheit”, performed by Burzum. From the entry impenetrable
  • You would be amazed at what is hidden by those kaftanlike cloaks and veils that Moroccan women wear!1982, Evelyn Stenbock, Teach Yourself to Write, Writer's Digest Books, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry kaftanlike
  • No ship that small has a cloaking device.1980, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, The Empire Strikes Back, spoken by Captain Needa (Michael Culver). From the entry cloaking device

Meaning of cloak

  1. noun A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
  2. noun A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
  3. noun That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.

Full definition of cloak

Questions about cloak in a sentence

How do you use cloak in a sentence?
Cloak is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.”
What is a short sentence with cloak?
“So why not rob these red cloaks?”
What does cloak mean?
Cloak means a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

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