covertin a sentence
covert as in: a covert plan
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The spy was involved in a covert operation to gather intelligence on the enemy’s plans.covert = secret
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The wildlife photographer used covert techniques to capture images of the elusive animals without disturbing them.covert = hidden
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The government's covert funding of foreign rebel groups has been criticized for destabilizing the region.covert = secret
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My progress must have prompted the Sixers to end their covert attempts to clear the Third Gate and make its location public by barricading it before I or anyone else could reach it. (source)covert = hidden
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I wonder if those who hear this story will understand that my behaviour was not an act of insanity or a covert suicide attempt, but a simple necessity. (source)
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A very old covert brotherhood. (source)covert = secret
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Buck still continued to interfere between Spitz and the culprits; but he did it craftily, when Francois was not around. With the covert mutiny of Buck, a general insubordination sprang up and increased. (source)covert = hidden
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Harry opened his copy of The Dream Oracle, watching Umbridge covertly. (source)covertly = secretly
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And thither the guide conducted them, careless of whistling partridges and lesser birds of brighter hues roused whirring from the reedy coverts.† (source)
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In Yongming County, all women who want a healthy child steal outright—but with the pretense of covertness—a pair of shoes from the goddess's altar.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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[looks at him with covert scorn.] (source)covert = hidden
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...last night, when Hanna, Sean, Mona, and a bunch of other kids were hanging out in Jim Freed's cedar hot tub, covertly drinking Coronas, Sean had taken All-American Boy Scout up a notch. (source)covertly = secretly
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The species, I think, is indicated by the white belly and dull red colour of the wing coverts which I observed in these specimens, and I believe them to be bustards, especially as I noticed in the largest the fine moustache-like feathers over the beak, peculiar to the Great Bustard.† (source)
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Not my choice of covert operations, but a necessary one in order to report back to my dad that night at dinner.† (source)
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Everybody was looking, covertly or openly, at Emily Brent. (source)
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He waited impatiently, mind beating the coverts ...Nothing ...Like a fabric the unknown speech flowed on riftless, opaque, until— "Bah!"† (source)
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The boar's note changed to a squeal and it swerved aside into the covert. (source)covert = hidden or sheltered place
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They surrounded the covert but the sow got away with the sting of another spear in her flank. (source)covert = hiding place
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He stopped before a covert. (source)covert = a hidden or sheltered place;
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If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while. (source)coverts = hidden places
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Roger called from the coverts. (source)
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