Sentence examples for he covered himself from inspiring English sources

For "12 Square Meters" (1994), he covered himself in honey and fish oil and sat for one hour in a public lavatory in Beijing, while people continued to use the facility.

As Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam prepared to land in Detroit on Christmas Day, with 290 people on board, he covered himself with a blanket and injected a chemical to detonate the explosive.

They never found the mythical ruler so rich that he covered himself in gold dust every day, but their voyage became part of the lore of the New World.

Ms. Stein points out that the founder of bodybuilding, Eugene Sandow, saw himself as a living Greek statue to such a degree that when he posed, he covered himself with white powder the better to resemble carved marble.

One day I watched Yang Guang drink slowly from a dish of water, then transport himself with implausible grace from a wooden platform to a metal bed filled with hay, where he covered himself in bamboo, as if tipping a salad bowl on top of his head.

Mel Gibson, who rekindled the vogue for historical martial epics when he covered himself in woad for Braveheart, has a $120m 10-part TV series for HBO, the US cable channel which made Steven Spielberg's Band of Brothers, ready to roll.

He covers himself covering the politicians, and tells us how his coverage was received (Howard Kurtz had a good word for him, ABC might have called on him).

As Michael talks he covers himself in ochre, creating clouds of dust that obscure him.

He covers himself in Walker gore to disguise himself among the Walkers, then injures his leg and shuffles around like them.

He covers himself with a heating ointment before games and changes his shirts between innings, so Clemens might have been the warmest person in the Stadium.

So to demonstrate his range — and to create one more piece of product (available exclusively at Wal-Mart) just before the holidays — Mr. Bieber is releasing "My Worlds Acoustic" (RBMG/Island), a minimalist take on his catalog in which he covers himself, in arrangements that may best be termed acoustic-ish.