wreathe

VERB
  1. decorate or deck with wreaths
    wreathe the grave site
  2. move with slow, sinuous movements
  3. form into a wreath
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How To Use wreathe In A Sentence

  • The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
  • wreathe the grave site
  • The gathering was assembled to pay their respects and lay wreathes on all the graves.
  • The bungalow inside is wreathed in smoke, great huge clouds of it, seemingly static around it.
  • The chariot, drawn by four horses, was wreathed in laurel, and the triumphator was attired like the Capitoline Jupiter in robes of purple and gold.
  • And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
  • Mistress Betty promised to send her young friends sets of silk for their embroidery (and kept her word); she presented Prissy with her enamel snuff-box, bearing an exact representation of that ugly building of St. James's; and Fiddy with her "equipage" -- scissors, tablets, and all, chased and wreathed with tiny pastorals, shepherds reclining and piping on sylvan banks, and shepherds and shepherdesses dancing on velvet lawns. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
  • We had set out reluctantly on a Friday evening at the end of a hard working week through a wintry countryside glittering with frost and wreathed in freezing mist.
  • A gleaming circle wreathed in holly and drooping with vines end flowers stood out from a dark, in - Three Girls in a Flat
  • In "Crystal Palace" (2002, revised 2011), in what he calls an ode to "digital interlace," he disassembles a landscape of majestic snow-wreathed conifers at Lake Tahoe (and, briefly, a red house) into sharply differentiated parts and visual planes, isolating these elements in a way that brings to mind the individual layers of a paper diorama. NYT > Home Page
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