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• v  cover with a protective sheathing
• v  enclose with a sheath
• v  plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
• a  enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination
  his sheathed sword
  the cat's sheathed claws
  a ship's bottom sheathed in copper
  copper-sheathed

• As we age, nerve fibers in our brain become sheathed in a protective coating made of fats and proteins.
• The 60-story tower is supposed to be sheathed with 10,344 windows of a double-paned insulating glass that reflect the Copley Square surroundings.
• To gain Athenian dignity, Gropius ringed the three-story structure with tall, reinforced concrete columns, visible girders and horizontal ribbons, sheathed all of them in strips .

• sheathe

• unsheathe
• unsheathed

News & Articles

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• Ad of the Day: Tango
  BBH London's new campaign for Tango, the British soft-drink brand, really pumps me up. Folks who enjoy the beverage in these superbly silly spots growl "AAARGH!" at full volume and flex their suddenly enormous biceps, pecs and delts after morphing into ridiculously ripped, bikini-sheathed, spray-tanned muscle-hulks—owing presumably to Tango's "orange intensity." Parental warning: Your kids will ...
  June 14, 2013 - AdWeek
• Armed and ready
  CORVALLIS — Kansas State arrived at the NCAA super regional in Goss Stadium with a gaudy .324 batting average after putting up 31 runs in three regional games. The Wildcats left here with their bats sheathed and their season over, largely because of Oregon State’s three starting pitchers. “They shut …
  June 12, 2013 - The Register-Guard

Quotes

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• Bill Frist in CNN
  The sword of the filibuster has been sheathed because we are placing principle before politics, and results before rhetoric,Frist said.
• Walt Mossberg in MacDailyNews
  Mossberg writes, "Like the previous iPods I've owned, my nano has never been sheathed in a case. Like the others, I carry the nano -- by itself -- in my pants or jacket or shirt pockets; or loosely in a briefcase or carry-on travel bag, in a pocket...