Sample Sentences forcamouflage (editor-reviewed)
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The troops camouflaged themselves before they went into enemy territory.camouflaged = made hard to see (in this case, probably by wearing colors or perhaps foliage to blend in)
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She was dressed in a camouflage-patterned uniform.camouflage = made to be hard to see by blending in with the background
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The lizard camouflages itself by changing color to match its surroundings.camouflages = hides by blending in with surroundings
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The trainer who runs the camouflage station is full of enthusiasm at his work. (source)camouflage = related to hiding by using colors or materials to blend in with surroundings
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The birds were everywhere ... and their camouflage was so perfect that it was possible for Brian to sit and rest, leaning against a tree, with one of them standing right in front of him in a willow clump, two feet away, hidden, only to explode into deafening flight just when Brian least expected it. (source)camouflage = hiding by blending in with surroundings
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She wasn't invisible, exactly, but she was almost perfectly camouflaged until she moved. (source)camouflaged = hid something by making it blend in with its surroundings; or hid the truth
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He's wearing this army camouflage shirt, a brown cap, and the weirdest grin that could fit on a human face. (source)camouflage = the act of hiding something by making it blend in with its surroundings; or hiding the truth; or something that hides or deceives
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His jaded face was camouflaged among the painting materials and fabric.† (source)
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I crawled over to this wall and hid in a niche in the corner, two metres from the burning building, camouflaging myself with the tendrils of the creeper and the leaves and stalks of some tomato plants growing between the wall and the building.† (source)
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It sets you up with the banality of common events, camouflages the danger signals, positions you with kind and mothering hands, whispers graceful cadences and cunning lullabies, and leads you blithely to terrifying reckoning, perhaps to extinction, but always to banality again.† (source)
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As hot as it is, he's wearing his camouflage coat.† (source)
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There was some kind of truth hidden in there, Reynie thought, but it was camouflaged with nonsense.† (source)
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She had powdered it heavily, but it called attention rather than camouflaging.† (source)
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Unless you include, as one must, the Holcomb School, a good-looking establishment, which reveals a circumstance that the appearance of the community otherwise camouflages: that the parents who send their children to this modern and ably staffed "consolidated" school-the grades go from kindergarten through senior high, and a fleet of buses transport the students, of which there are usually around three hundred and sixty, from as far as sixteen miles away-are, in general, a prosperous people.† (source)
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It's surrounded by open space, but the trees provide some camouflage.† (source)
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Perhaps it was the backdrop: Buck's Peak was theirs and it camouflaged them, so that when I saw them there, surrounded by the loud, sharp relics of my childhood, the setting seemed to absorb them.† (source)
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