camouflage

in a sentence

I make a mental note to camouflage it first thing tomorrow.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

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) Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, 1987

He's wearing this army camouflage shirt, a brown cap, and the weirdest grin that could fit on a human face.  (source) Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh, 2000

As hot as it is, he's wearing his camouflage coat.†  (source) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, 2017

She wasn't invisible, exactly, but she was almost perfectly camouflaged until she moved.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena, 2012

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) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

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) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

It's surrounded by open space, but the trees provide some camouflage.†  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

His jaded face was camouflaged among the painting materials and fabric.†  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

She had powdered it heavily, but it called attention rather than camouflaging.†  (source) Stephen King, The Gunslinger, 1981

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) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966

"X" marks the spot where they make the camouflage nets.†  (source) Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine, 2002

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) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018