MANTLE in a Sentence
Learn MANTLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
63 example sentences for MANTLE, such as:
1. One's mantle falls on somebody.
2. The Victorian mantle with the bead fringe.
3. Reason had thrown her mantle on a holly hedge.
4. But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete.
5. She unsuccessfully attempted to assume the mantle of presidency.
2. The Victorian mantle with the bead fringe.
3. Reason had thrown her mantle on a holly hedge.
4. But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete.
5. She unsuccessfully attempted to assume the mantle of presidency.
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Meanings and Examples of MANTLE
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mantle
n. (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
n. anything that covers
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1 The tune said, more or less, how Eve, gathering her robes about her, stands reluctant still to let her dewy mantle fall.
2 Reason had thrown her mantle on a holly hedge.
3 The Victorian mantle with the bead fringe.
4 But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5 His mantle and hood were of the best Flanders cloth, and fell in ample, and not ungraceful folds, around a handsome, though somewhat corpulent person.
6 On the right shoulder of the mantle there was cut, in white cloth, a cross of a peculiar form.
7 The eight-pointed cross of his order was cut on the shoulder of his mantle in black velvet.
8 A cloak or mantle of coarse black serge, enveloped his whole body.
9 As he spoke these last words, he raised himself, and grasped the Palmer's mantle with a look of the most earnest entreaty.
10 Just as Rebecca had dropped over her fine features a screen of silver gauze which reached to her feet, the door opened, and Gurth entered, wrapt in the ample folds of his Norman mantle.
11 They were therefore in universal use among Prince John's courtiers; and the long mantle, which formed the upper garment of the Saxons, was held in proportional derision.
12 And thou, who canst guess so truly," said Brian de Bois-Guilbert, dropping the mantle from his face, "art no true daughter of Israel, but in all, save youth and beauty, a very witch of Endor.
13 The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad.
14 Half in my dreams I was dimly conscious that something was going on in the room, and gradually became aware that my wife had dressed herself and was slipping on her mantle and her bonnet.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
Context Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
15 She was deadly pale and breathing fast, glancing furtively towards the bed as she fastened her mantle, to see if she had disturbed me.
Example Sentence:
1 She unsuccessfully attempted to assume the mantle of presidency.
2 The problem with all these calculations is they assume a homogenous chemical mantle.
3 It is up to Europe to take on the mantle of leadership in environmental issues.
4 The vice-president must now take on the mantle of supreme power.
5 One's mantle falls on somebody.
6 On a summer night, a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads.
7 I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which gnawed me within.
8 I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which began to gnaw me within.