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How to use covert in a sentence

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Unlike legitimate weapons held openly in escrow, illegitimate covert weapons would be usable.
Yarn bombing is often a covert, guerrilla affair, with displays popping up unexpectedly and artists hiding their identities.
We plotted our methods of evasion like we were planning a covert military operation, carefully mapping out alternate routes of entry and exit.
If this was a covert air war, both Bush and Blair may face searching questions.
Feminists criticize the misogyny of philosophers and the overt and covert sexism, androcentrism, and related forms of male bias in philosophy.
He planned an operation requiring covert surveillance, to arrest several suspects.
Police have been monitoring the site and using covert surveillance to trap the troublemakers.
The open, revelatory vision of the crystal ends up being one more version of the covert vision of allegory.
But by the following year it was fully committed to covert anti-communist operations under the Truman Doctrine.
The desire to control women and keep us in line is both overt and covert in North America.
The clever asides that create a covert intimacy with the audience were too quick for the vocal transitions, if any, to register.
We've a lot of air support and a lot of backup as opposed to these small covert wars that we've been used to fighting.
They didn't bail out of the covert program around the world because it's too valuable for us.
Add to that a covert operation to score some marijuana for his dad's glaucoma, and, well, it's needless to say this day doesn't end well.
Mom and Dad hurried to the hallway, leaving my brother and me to engage in covert anarchy, spoons engaged as shiny ballistae.
Many of our mechanisms to develop and deliver rights protection contain covert begging processes.
A bar worker at a the hotel was caught with his fingers in the till after management set up a covert surveillance system.
It is the perfect watch for a well-honed style merchant on sinister covert missions.
Other covert radio transmitters available from security equipment dealers have serious drawbacks.
The view is angled sidewise and up towards a drop ceiling, and is partly obscured, giving the video feed a decidedly covert look.
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Examples from Classical Literature
One day she retorted pertly when some covert remark, not altogether to her new mother's laudation, had been made by Lillian.
But underneath their covert, in the shade, grey periwinkles wind among the snowy drift of allium.
After skirting the covert, she turned homewards by a pathway through the trees.
Hilda responded with a quiet, patient little smile, gathering together the wide sleeves of the covert coat.
She did not wear the covert coat of the morning, but a red knit jacket, buttoned tight about her.
Her hair was pretty in color and texture, but it was cut almost close, and just touched the collar of her covert coat.
A covert coat is the most convenient, but the former is more readily obtained.
She wore, too, the covert coat I remembered from the day I saw her first from the wall.
Money given to a feme covert for her maintenance, because her husband is an unthrift.
He knew that she had not the strength to breast it fleetly enough for covert.
We catch a word, a touch of flippancy, a suggestion of licence, a covert sneer which goes too far by a hairsbreadth.
He made a jump off the right-of-way, and as the handcar flashed by he watched its flight from the covert of a weed tangle.
Mignon sent a covert glance toward this stony-faced third party whom she feared.
For the horseman who had ridden out of the covert was stroud, the Rancho Seco straw-boss.
And yet at certain seasons the kestrel is as destructive in the covert as its congeners.
There was covert insinuation of suspicion, albeit a kindly one, in the man's voice.
The rest of the spectators kept close to the covert of grass tuft and lily pad.
In the covert, unproclaimed struggle which had brought them both to this pass, that must have been the gauge.
When the deer lay down he was quat, when he stood still in covert he was stalling.
Christie Tierney, 31, Robert Winterton, 30, and Thomas Burns, 31, were locked up after a covert investigation into drugs running in Dorset.
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