Mantling

Word MANTLING
Character 8
Hyphenation man tling
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Mantling"

What do we mean by mantling?

To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

To become covered or concealed.

To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).

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The word "mantling" in example sentences

The music, as well as his words, had floated to the deep bay window; the curtains had swiftly and noiselessly parted, and she was stealing after his retreating figure with an expression mantling her face which brought out every detail of its great beauty. ❋ Unknown (1901)

Sohothin engulfed the weapon, fire mantling the hammerhead. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

The Romney campaign is better at dismantling than mantling. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2012)

The act of hiding the food with outspread wings and tail while it eats is called “mantling.” ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

Fire flies to it and begins mantling as she eats it. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

He spreads his wings and tail over the prize, mantling, as he tears at the meat. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

Darkwind looked startled; the gryphons were mantling and the little ones hid under their wings. ❋ R. Daniel Lester (2010)

Like I said previously, your boy handles almost perfectly (I wished that grenades could be thrown a bit farther) and there are no problems with the running, jumping, crouching or mantling (climbing over obstacles) mechanics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And then, mantling my wings tight to my back, I fell. ❋ Kat Howard (2009)

What would be wrong with that, isn't that exactly what we need -- national attention on these skunks and the businesses behind their donors -- to start dis-mantling the right-wing noise machine? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Region-wide unifying features include a lack of Pleistocene glaciation, a continental climate, a mantling of undifferentiated alluvium and slope deposits, a predominance of forests dominated by spruce and hardwood species, and a very high frequency of lightning fires. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I found myself crouching over the kill, like a mantling hawk. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

No veil I draw o'er my tender cheek shaded with its clustering curls; no shame I feel from maiden modesty at the hot blood mantling 'neath my eyes, the blush upon my face, as I hurry wildly on in death's train, casting from my hair its tire and letting my delicate robe of saffron hue fly loose, a tearful escort to the dead. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ms. Shervani is mantling the role of a 'salsa dancer' in her forthcoming movie 'U Me Aur Hum'. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the ancient gardens of the Castle, and upon all sides of it excepting the western, which was precipitous, large old trees had found root, mantling the rock and the ancient and ruinous walls with their dusky verdure, and increasing the effect of the shattered pile which towered up from the centre. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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