raiment in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ 'reimənt ] ]
Examples
- The disciples wore saffron-coloured raiment topped over with neatly tied turbans of the same colour.
- The figures Saint Mary and Saint Dominic appear in mostly dark raiment, again with striking highlights.
- We rip away their glittering raiment and claw at their exposed skin, clamoring for bone and blood.
- Again and again, war's fiery raiment has become a figure for modern apparel ."
- Saya San was proclaimed the Thupannaka Galon Raja, and donned the royal raiments prescribed by ancient usage.
- Two axes are emerging, one dressed in the garb of Eastern Orthodoxy, one veiled in Islamic raiment.
- Whether the raiment has been put on in celebration or desperation is something the new century will soon reveal.
- Nonetheless, Grant ordered all public offices closed, and federal buildings draped in " raiments of sorrow ".
- In its dazzling raiment of spring, the land belies the tragedy that inflicted such sorrow on the people of Oklahoma.
- Bush then donned the raiment of Republican moderate and won enough delegate votes to clinch the party's presidential nomination.