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How to use covert in a sentence

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The favoured format would show them the covert video of them slobbing out and show them how content and real they look.
They begin a whirlwind romance that has them sneaking away for covert booty calls while the others work like Pharaoh's slaves.
I see these covert mechanisms as being akin to the development of politically correct language.
Clearly, this bill provides the victims of covert filming with an effective response.
He was as unschooled in covert action as his Embassy counterparts, but was more innovative and seemingly inexhaustible.
Detectives suspected Brindle of drug dealing again in the summer of 2004, and launched a covert surveillance operation in a bid to snare him.
From this new position, he sneaks covert glances across the aisle at her soft profile.
Now, who do you think would have access to the resources needed for a well organised covert operation like that?
I'm worried that it's just another covert and cunning way for Labour to try and neuter other parties.
They lie to conceal actions taken to achieve covert policies injurious to the general good of the public.
Applied to behavior, especially sexual behavior, the disease label combines a description with a covert value judgment.
Cyber protection systems should use covert identification programs to discover information about an infiltrator.
As a covert operative she made trips abroad to exploit her expertise in unconventional weapons.
Our covert approach to surveillance gives us an element of surprise over our targets, often catching them in the act.
They used covert cameras and created a sequence of shots of the unsuspecting woman going about her daily business.
Yet legal terms and procedures were also expected to respect a married woman's special status as a feme covert, a covered woman.
Griffin says covert liaisons and secret calls from a lover in a call box proclaiming how much he needs you are romantic and even addictive.
He was also a source of ideas and plans for covert action to influence the course of the war.
The odd bods popped up to play their favourite game of Operation We're Not Together in covert fashion on the weekend.
I doubt it, terrorism is all about covert ops, stealthy operations and leaving as little evidence and traces as possible.
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Examples from Classical Literature
One day she retorted pertly when some covert remark, not altogether to her new mother's laudation, had been made by Lillian.
But underneath their covert, in the shade, grey periwinkles wind among the snowy drift of allium.
After skirting the covert, she turned homewards by a pathway through the trees.
Hilda responded with a quiet, patient little smile, gathering together the wide sleeves of the covert coat.
She did not wear the covert coat of the morning, but a red knit jacket, buttoned tight about her.
Her hair was pretty in color and texture, but it was cut almost close, and just touched the collar of her covert coat.
A covert coat is the most convenient, but the former is more readily obtained.
She wore, too, the covert coat I remembered from the day I saw her first from the wall.
Money given to a feme covert for her maintenance, because her husband is an unthrift.
He knew that she had not the strength to breast it fleetly enough for covert.
We catch a word, a touch of flippancy, a suggestion of licence, a covert sneer which goes too far by a hairsbreadth.
He made a jump off the right-of-way, and as the handcar flashed by he watched its flight from the covert of a weed tangle.
Mignon sent a covert glance toward this stony-faced third party whom she feared.
For the horseman who had ridden out of the covert was stroud, the Rancho Seco straw-boss.
And yet at certain seasons the kestrel is as destructive in the covert as its congeners.
There was covert insinuation of suspicion, albeit a kindly one, in the man's voice.
The rest of the spectators kept close to the covert of grass tuft and lily pad.
In the covert, unproclaimed struggle which had brought them both to this pass, that must have been the gauge.
When the deer lay down he was quat, when he stood still in covert he was stalling.
Christie Tierney, 31, Robert Winterton, 30, and Thomas Burns, 31, were locked up after a covert investigation into drugs running in Dorset.
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