veil

Definition:
1. A garment that covers the head and face.
2. The inner embryonic membrane of 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.
4. To obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil.
5. Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing.

Use 'veil' in a sentence:

• 1. The land is draped in a veil of mist.
• 2. Pick a veil and tiara that match the dress.
• 3. A veiled woman gave me a kindly smile.
• 4. Nicholas: Next time, try wearing a veil.
• 5. So you, Mike, behind the veil of ignorance.
• 6. The Sun had captioned a picture of Princess Diana 'Princess of Veils'
• 7. He had helped me lift the veil that grows so quickly over our eyes in this hectic world, and to see all those things I'd failed to marvel at before.
• 8. She put on a red petticoat first, then a black dress, and a white veil over the dress.
• 9. She's got long fair hair but she's got a veil over it.
• 10. Just like a "veil".
• 11. I got up hurriedly, adjusted my veil, and thanked her for her time.
• 12. The clamour to draw a veil over the minister's extra-marital activities reeks of hypocrisy.
• 13. This week Mr Putin lifted the veil.
• 14. A hazy morning mist veiled the mountain village.
• 15. The service is better when waiters depend on tips, presumably because they see a benefit to successfully veiling their contempt for you.
• 16. She swathes her face in a veil of decorative muslin.
• 17. It would dishonour my family if I didn't wear the veil.
• 18. He recognized the coast of England through a veil of mist.
• 19. She dropped her veil.
• 20. She raised her veil.
• 21. She put on a velvet veil then set out.
• 22. She put on a velvet veil, then set out.
• 23. It was darker outside because the moon was hidden behind a veil of clouds.
• 24. The top of the building was hidden beneath a veil of mist.
• 25. No, we're not going to make women wear the veil.
• 26. Moslem women used to veil their faces before going into public.
• 27. I replied with a thinly veiled warning.
• 28. The country is ridding itself of its disgraced prime minister in a veil of secrecy.
• 29. The chilling facts behind this veil of silence were slow to emerge.
• 30. There was so much blood on her red petticoat, blood on her black dress and her white veil, blood on the executioner's shoes, blood all over the floor.
• 31. Dummy text is a veil between you and reality.
• 32. Her black veil was simple.
• 33. It's almost like a green gauze veil.
• 34. Suddenly I saw in front of me lady alroy, deeply veiled and walking very fast.
• 35. Above him, in a niche on the wall, sat a tiny veiled Ganesh, the elephant god.
• 36. He retreated behind a veil of cigarette smoke.
• 37. He was a beautiful creature, with slender legs, bright, intelligent eyes, and a mane that hung down over his neck like a veil.
• 38. Through science, we can glimpse some basic structures of the reality beneath the veil, but much of it remains an infinite, eternal mystery.
• 39. He made only a veiled reference to international concerns over human rights issues.
• 40. She made a veiled reference to his past mistakes.
• 41. The women wore veils in deference to the customs of the country.
• 42. Their work is carried out behind a veil of secrecy.
• 43. The mountain tops were hidden beneath a veil of mist.
• 44. The eruption has left a thin veil of dust in the upper atmosphere.
• 45. It would be better to draw a veil over what happened next.
• 46. A fine drizzle began to veil the hills.
• 47. The veil she was wearing obscured her features.
• 48. In many Muslim countries, the women wear veils.
• 49. It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backward through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.