How to Use wreathe in a Sentence

wreathe

verb

• The walls of the cavern, wreathed in flowstone, glittered in brown and gray.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
• The walk up the steps to the Royal Box after the game, the losing team’s faces locked in grief, the winners’ wreathed in smiles.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 May 2017
• Brandoniya lay in a small casket, white wreathed in pale pink, with a glimmering tiara atop her head.
  — Sarah Sarder, Dallas News, 25 May 2010
• Their grave boxes still smell like fresh paint and are wreathed in plastic flowers, propped up on blocks on the cemetery's highest ground, at least for now.
  — Author: Teresa Cotsirilos, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• Ghostly villagers assembled, silent and wreathed with smoke as their buildings burned and burned.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017
• When Fawcett returns after one expedition, the front of his English house is wreathed in creepers, as if the tendrils of vines had spread across the sea.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• And a few doors down, a towering shaman-like figure wreathed in strings of multicolored beads cradles a conch close to his mouth, eyes closed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019
• Raissa and Mariam take it all in -- wreathes heavy with ornaments, chandeliers, ablaze with light.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 24 Dec. 2017
• The sculptures depict four seated African women, wreathed or constrained in what appear to be coiling vines, and with flat mirror-like disks in front of their faces.
  — Daniel Gelernter, National Review, 21 Sep. 2019
• Previous spacecraft had had to carry their crews up through the buffeting atmosphere and bring them back down through it wreathed in fire.
  — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 4 June 2019
• On the day of the wedding, the gateway outside of the First Congregational Church was wreathed with pink peonies, a special surprise from Miles’s parents.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2017
• Her pyrotechnic blondeness, with its cascade of dark roots, wreathed her face like a spray of goldenrod.
  — David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
• Out in the parking lot, wreathed in the citrusy odor of the sunscreen four young men are slathering on their torsos before heading across Ocean Avenue, some of those who've opted out explain why.
  — Time, 29 June 2017
• Campaigners accused the government of doing too little, as dramatic footage showed the area off Balikpapan in the province of East Kalimantan wreathed in thick black smoke after the oil caught fire over the weekend.
  — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
• Brash, tireless and in the seclusion of the boardroom wreathed in a cloud of cigar smoke and profanities, Mr Iacocca presented a public image when boss of Chrysler as the patriotic car guy urging his countrymen to buy American.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Along the way Maddin works his way through his usual bag of tricks—irises, feverish superimpositions, texts introducing the characters, figures wreathed in electronic snow.
  — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 1 May 2018

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