How to Use veiling in a Sentence

veiling

noun
  • These types of veiling allow the wearer to adjust the amount of hair shown and the fit and the length of the tunic.
    Amy Motlagh, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2022
  • These were hats made out of veiling which went on top of your beehive.
    Laura Jacobs, Vanities, 9 May 2018
  • That one, from the get-go, was no veiling — no gradually parsing out and meting out the fear and the story.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
  • In this piece, there are references to that body of work, obviously, with the veiling.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The traditional veiling ceremony began, which most of the guests watched through their phones.
    New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Judith Leiber clutch bags, assorted gloves, white hats and veiling, and embroidered handkerchiefs to hold rings or blot away tears.
    Ingrid Schmidt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Saudi Arabia follows Wahhabism, the strict brand of Islam, that, among other things, forbids the mixing of sexes and mandates the veiling of women.
    Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The mannequins wearing Lowe are shadowed by masked figures cloaked in ethereal black veiling, a nod to the ancestral costumes of West Africa known as Egungun.
    Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 15 May 2022
  • Iran has compulsory veiling laws and women have been sent to jail for protesting the law, requiring hijab's to be worn by women in public.
    Adam Sabes, Fox News, 21 July 2022
  • This is also frequently cited as a virtue of Islamic veiling.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Mar. 2020
  • A century or more ago, strict veiling was largely limited to Iran’s upper classes.
    Amir-Hussein Radjy, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The two Muslim women—one a Belgian national, the other Moroccan—who had brought the case to court argued that the ban violates the rights of veiling-wearing women to religious freedom and privacy.
    Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2010
  • The role of the morality police, which enforces veiling laws, came under scrutiny after a detainee, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, died in its custody in mid-September.
    Jack Jeffery, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The unrest over the issue of mandatory veiling for women has come to symbolize wider anger against the Iranian government and has been met with a violent crackdown by authorities.
    Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Iranian women, many of them young women, and their supporters have been rising up against mandatory veiling, economic corruption and mismanagement, and 43 years of militant Islamist repression.
    Hamid Dabashi, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But veiling was no longer just a physical marker of religious or cultural difference—it was also seen as an affront to assimilation, a visible symbol of resistance to colonization.
    Time, 19 May 2021
  • Authorities have installed surveillance cameras in public places recently to catch violators of mandatory veiling.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023

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