Sentence examples for covered for something from inspiring English sources

"I feel like we've been paying for private health insurance for so long now that we should have at least been covered for something.

David Wallace points out that he might be needed in the office if there's a crisis with one of his clients, to which he responds that he's asked Stanley Hudson Leslie Davidd Baker and Phyllis Vance Phyllis Smithto) to cover for him, something he hadn't done yet.

The plot involves a bogus movie project covering for a lunatic treasure hunt, and a kidnapping that may well be a cover for something else.

"Why give somebody else money to cover you for something that may not happen?" asked Mr. Giorgianni, who said if electronics were that fragile or unreliable, the warranty providers would be paying out more than they were taking in.

It's a cover for something else".

But its offices suggest that this may have been a cover for something far more sinister.

My Da said it was a cover for something to do with the H-blocks.

And, even more tragically, Sweet Valley High has ditched its iconic covers for something a little more glamorous.

Every once in a while, we'll do a cover for something that's a theme issue.

From the historical evidence, the BSCS's overseas adaptation offices don't appear to be cover for something nefarious: they really did focus on biology curriculum reform, especially textbook translation.

Byatt, for whom Sebald's narrator "journeys in great circling spirals in order not to go home, to get away from his origins", sees melancholy as a "cover for something more savage: he suddenly puts the knife in about the Germans".