Sentence examples for were cover from inspiring English sources
verb
To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- He covered the baby with a blanket.
A student council representative demurred, suspicious that such organizations were cover for terrorist recruitment.
The drills were cover, and the dummy threats were made real.
Attached to the letters were cover sheets specifically asking recipients not to divulge the information contained in the letter.
There were cover stories in national magazines and countless features extolling Hitchcock's latest blond discovery, model Tippi Hedren.
Ironically, among his biggest hits were cover versions of rhythm-and-blues songs such as Otis Blackwell's "Handy Man".
His Scottish prosecutors aimed to prove that these roles were cover for his activities as a senior agent for the Libyan intelligence service, the JSO.
There were cover-ups everywhere the lawyers looked.
That meant a much less obvious, body-conscious red carpet style, and some of the most striking pieces were cover-ups.
Some residents and workers have said that they believed there were cover-up conspiracies, perpetrated by the city, the federal government or building owners, to minimize cleanup costs and liabilities.
Finally, sections were cover-slipped and scanned with the NanoZoomer 2.0-HT System (Olympus) at 20× resolution using TRITC fluorescence filter, and images were acquired using NDP scan 2.5 software (Olympus).
After staining with Hematoxylin and Eosin, slides were cover-slipped.
