Sentence examples for a thin veil of from inspiring English sources

It's violence with a thin veil of organisation.

A thin veil of dust also hangs over much of the Arabian Sea.

Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant.

Here, countless hot young suns are forged and glow blue, white and orange through a thin veil of interstellar dust.

A thin veil of flies rose above the horse for a moment, in what seemed to Jim the shape of a horse, but quickly settled back down.

The many think tanks and advocacy organisations they support are front groups designed primarily to advance corporate interests behind a thin veil of libertarian and conservative ideology.

It was a windless day with a thin veiling of cloud, which I didn't mind at all.

(Hello Kitty's obsessive focus on "cuteness" can be a thin veil for quite a lot of sexualisation – many of the costumes on display wouldn't look out of place at a fetish club).

Moving ExxonMobil's CEO to secretary of state will deepen the belief among many foreign audiences that American "order" is a thin veil for resource-hungry neocolonialism.

A thin veil covered the top of her head, but her face and hair were exposed.

There is sometimes a very thin veil of intimidation that has to be broken through when Shakespeare is being done in this country.