Veiling can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| veil - to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces" | ||
| veil - make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" | ||
Noun |
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| veiling - a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | verb | Women in Afghanistan veil their faces. | |
| 2. | verb | Algerian Arabs veil their sisters but violate and beat women who are not veiled. | |
| 3. | verb | Algerian Arabs veil their sisters and their wives but spend their time watching pornographic films. | |
| 4. | verb | Algerians veil their wives but deceive them too. | |
| 5. | verb | Algerian Arabs veil their sisters but violate and beat women who are not veiled. | |
| 6. | verb | Algerian Arabs veil their sisters and their wives but spend their time watching pornographic films. | |
| 7. | verb | Algerians veil their wives but deceive them too. | |
| 8. | noun | This bride is covering her face with a veil. | |
| 9. | noun | It was night, and a veil of darkness covered the streets. | |
| 10. | noun | Clouds signify the veil of the Most High. | |
| 11. | noun | They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. | |
| 12. | noun | She wears a veil to hide her wounds. | |
| 13. | noun | She hid her face behind a veil. | |
| 14. | noun | The first rays of the sun tore the cloudy veil and the outline of a rocky island appeared. | |
| 15. | noun | You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. | |
| 16. | noun | I'll be wearing a veil. | |
| 17. | noun | The prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism. | |
| 18. | noun | It was a foggy, cloudy morning, and a dun-coloured veil hung over the house-tops, looking like the reflection of the mud-coloured streets beneath. | |
| 19. | noun | She raised her veil as she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable state of agitation, her face all drawn and gray, with restless frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. | |
| 20. | noun | She dropped her thick black veil over her face and glided from the room. | |
| 21. | noun | Meanwhile, with beaten breasts and streaming hair, / the Trojan dames, a sad and suppliant train, / the veil to partial Pallas' temple bear. / Stern, with averted eyes the Goddess spurns their prayer. | |
| 22. | noun | Rich presents, too, he sends for, saved of old / from Troy, a veil, whose saffron edges shone / fringed with acanthus, glorious to behold, / a broidered mantle, stiff with figures wrought in gold. / Fair Helen's ornaments, from Argos brought, / the gift of Leda, when the Trojan shore / and lawless nuptials o'er the waves she sought. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| Women in Afghanistan veil their faces. |
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| Algerian Arabs veil their sisters but violate and beat women who are not veiled. | |
| Algerian Arabs veil their sisters and their wives but spend their time watching pornographic films. | |
| Algerians veil their wives but deceive them too. | |
| Algerian Arabs veil their sisters but violate and beat women who are not veiled. | |
| Algerian Arabs veil their sisters and their wives but spend their time watching pornographic films. | |
| Algerians veil their wives but deceive them too. | |
| noun | |
| This bride is covering her face with a veil. | |
| It was night, and a veil of darkness covered the streets. | |
| Clouds signify the veil of the Most High. | |
| They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. | |
| She wears a veil to hide her wounds. | |
| She hid her face behind a veil. | |
| The first rays of the sun tore the cloudy veil and the outline of a rocky island appeared. | |
| You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. | |
| I'll be wearing a veil. | |
| The prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism. | |
| It was a foggy, cloudy morning, and a dun-coloured veil hung over the house-tops, looking like the reflection of the mud-coloured streets beneath. | |
| She raised her veil as she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable state of agitation, her face all drawn and gray, with restless frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. | |
| She dropped her thick black veil over her face and glided from the room. | |
| Meanwhile, with beaten breasts and streaming hair, / the Trojan dames, a sad and suppliant train, / the veil to partial Pallas' temple bear. / Stern, with averted eyes the Goddess spurns their prayer. | |
| Rich presents, too, he sends for, saved of old / from Troy, a veil, whose saffron edges shone / fringed with acanthus, glorious to behold, / a broidered mantle, stiff with figures wrought in gold. / Fair Helen's ornaments, from Argos brought, / the gift of Leda, when the Trojan shore / and lawless nuptials o'er the waves she sought. | |