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.
