shroudlike造句

• She must wear the traditional shroudlike garb known as a burqa.
• Clearly, something shroudlike is ingrained in the Orthodox world.
• You can smell the smoke as cars pass into shroudlike pockets of fog, then disappear.
• Anyone who works in a cubicle knows that its shroudlike isolation bears no resemblance to real privacy.
• They come from a country where the former Taliban regime banned schools for girls and required the shroudlike burqa for all women.
• In other searches recently, American troops have found Afghan women carrying weapons beneath the shroudlike burkas that the Taliban made mandatory for all women outside their homes.
• It is a shroudlike garment draped over a chair; the body that might once have inhabited it is truly lost, leaving only the black hair behind, sewn onto the cloth.
• The stage was bare of everything except thick, shroudlike curtains that gave new force to that old expression, " Let us draw the curtain on evil thoughts and deeds ."
• In the early days of Taliban rule, Spoghmai was slowly becoming accustomed to the sight of women hurrying about the capital in their long, shroudlike burqas, mandated by the new rulers.
• Unlike an earlier incarnation a few years ago _ a sackcloth-and-ashes piety represented on the runways by crosses and shroudlike gowns _ this latest wave expounds beauty and sensuality over grim renunciation.
• Outside the vast shrine in the center of Mashad, Iran, the women struggled with their chadors, shroudlike garments that cover all but the face and must be secured with one hand held under the chin.
• And it comes across in the paintings, whether she depicts herself in spectacularly ruffled fiesta gown clutching a bunch of roses, or with her head draped in a shroudlike shawl to suggest a peasant woman or a Mater Dolorosa.
• The most visible change in the way women in Kabul appear in public is the increasing number who venture out without wearing the shroudlike burka, the head-to-toe covering the Taliban made mandatory for every woman outside her home.
• It careens through everything from a limp Gilbert and Sullivan-style patter song to a series of all-ghoul dance numbers that, with their tattered shroudlike costumes by Ann Hould-Ward, suggest a bunch of drunk high school kids trying to replicate Michael Jackson's " Thriller " video.