Sentence Examples

1. She handed it to Elizabeth, and, as Elizabeth took it in her hands, she felt the covert presence of power inside her.
2. Mary and I witnessed this covert exchange in San Diego.
3. Its covert ridicule of rulers, courts, statesmen, and political organizations was so severe and cut so ruthlessly and cruelly deep, that only its diabolical cleverness prevented its suppression and instead lent it an unprecedented popularity.
4. We are being paid by persons unknown to organize and execute a massive covert operation designed to destroy computer rooms, files, and evidence.
5. Years of covert practice had taught her to control her emotions, to gather them and stow them away where they could not interfere with the actions of her body.
6. That Moreau had organized a covert operation without any of us knowing about it was daunting.
7. Sam says rumors abound the CIA is planning a covert action against UBL in retaliation for the USS Cole.
8. Guess the guy in Syria had caught wind of a covert op in New York.
9. But let it not for a moment be supposed that, in proceeding with the sad narrative of Marie from the epoch just mentioned, and in tracing to its dénouement the mystery which enshrouded her, it is my covert design to hint at an extension of the parallel, or even to suggest that the measures adopted in Paris for the discovery of the assassin of a grisette, or measures founded in any similar ratiocination, would produce any similar result.
10. We had sent covert teams in over the course of almost eighteen months and they found nothing.