Sentence examples for mere cover from inspiring English sources

He orchestrated an aid convoy into the region that, according to NATO, was mere cover for a Russian invasion force.

Finding evidence of gay fantasies in Wood's paintings, Evans's absorbing biography dismisses the artist's folksy declarations and devotion to Regionalism as a mere cover for his tortured private life.

There is nothing in the record from which it can be inferred that the state of Maryland intended to make its tobacco-inspection laws a mere cover for laying revenue duties upon exports.

If so, the mistake was not such as to justify the conclusion that the statute was a mere cover to destroy a particular kind of business not inherently harmful or immoral.

Left-wing rhetoric often treats Enlightenment liberalism as hopelessly tainted by its founders' racist and sexist sins, if not a mere cover for white male privilege and colonialist atrocity; the Enlightenment is even blamed, dubiously, for generating racism itself.

Treasury officials said Thursday that the trip was planned explicitly around "official government travel," rejecting the idea that the Fort Knox visit and the appearance at a luncheon for the local chamber of commerce were mere cover.

But Ms. Grande isn't a mere covers artist.

Mere covers for the hard boards substituting for mattresses.

Anger and irritation can also be mere cover-ups for feeling scared, embarrassed or ashamed.

My Botox bruise was so deeply defiant that it scoffed at mere cover-up.

I had fallen for the beginnings of "Glee" -- featuring mere covers -- and got burned by the show's nonsensical plot and eventual mediocrity.