From the instant he'd found himself standing in the midst of the teeming throng, a thick shroud of indifference had clouded his thoughts.

What sun they had had in the morning had retreated behind a thick shroud of gray in the afternoon, leaving the apartment dimmer than twilight.

Over everything lay, not merely a film, but a thick shroud of dust, obscuring the shine of metal, softening angles into curves.

Hausner admitted that neither ridge looked like a natural formation, and Dobkin had said to picture a thick shroud over a corpse.

Now that they were repairing that hole, one satellite at a time, their force field had brightened and coalesced from spider-silk strands to a thick, opalescent shroud.

The rain rushing toward them like a vast funereal shroud, a waterfall of black liquid metal, thick and blinding.

It is barely visible through the thick shroud of haze that hangs in the Caribbean air this time of year.

I gathered my own courage around me, a flimsy substitute for the thick gray shroud.

Before his guns could speak, revolvers sounded the first roar of a volley that was intended to blast the clumsy fighter right out of his thick white shroud.

By the early 1990's, Baumhorn's tombstone in Budapest's main Jewish cemetery was invisible under a thick shroud of shrubs and ivy.