The phrase "covering herself" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a person taking action to protect or conceal something. For example: "She shivered in the cold wind, covering herself with a blanket for warmth."
YaaKonadu earned between 600 and 1,000 Ghana cedis (£196-326) in monthly insurance cover based on her network use, covering herself and her father, Eugene.
Kidd entered court ushered in by several minders whilst covering herself with an umbrella.
She is obsessed with money, spending her evenings covering herself with $100 bills.
Diana was always comfortable in her body and was careless about covering herself in front of our girls.
In addition to covering herself, Ms. Watts has two daughters, one of whom suffers from lupus, a chronic autoimmune disorder.
"Wearing a scarf just makes me feel more liberated," said Ayesha Syed, 20, a junior at Columbia University who began covering herself last year.
She's protecting Aria by not telling the truth, but she's also covering for herself.
"Surely you knew what you were doing?" the reporter asks, and Val's lips quiver between covering for herself, feeling pride and feeling shock over perhaps truly being respected for the first time.
She joined the staff of the student newspaper and quickly made a name for herself covering the pivotal 1980 New Hampshire presidential primary.
Before starting her work in the jail, Ms. Griffin offered a version of her program at Houston-area outreach agencies, covering the costs herself.
When she was 6, living in the British countryside in a grand, damp Georgian pile called Milgate Park, Lowell overturned a kettle of scalding water on herself, covering 70 percent of her body in third-degree burns.
