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How to use take cover in a sentence

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Several other soldiers started firing, forcing the mercenaries to take cover in the small crevices in the wall.
These boltholes give Meerkats a place to take cover if danger arises if they are out foraging.
After they spot a UFO, Frank and Joe take cover in a house filled with strange optical illusions.
Gunfights become remarkably tense, exciting affairs as you take cover in a crossfire of whistling ricochets.
You want the material to be at least the full height of the tallest person in your home who's likely to take cover behind it.
Enemies take cover, sometimes knocking over tables and ducking behind them.
When you hear the air attack warning, you and your family must take cover at once.
Soldiers cover each other, take cover, retreat when injured, and generally work efficiently.
Spectators take cover under colourful umbrellas or in makeshift tents to protect themselves from the blistering sun.
Marines take cover behind a sandbagged fighting position to lay down a hail of paintball rounds on the opposition.
A sensor contact made him pause, take cover, and get a bead on the opening to the tunnel.
At high tide, many mudskipper species take cover in their submerged burrows to avoid being attacked by predatory fish that cruise the shallows.
All we thought about was getting across the sand and getting through the houses to take cover.
If she feels threatened, she may freeze or sound a cry of warning to her young instructing them to take cover.
In other words, places where a child can take cover in an emergency, have someone to talk to, and take it easy.
I picture the scarlet robes of Tibetan monks blowing in the cold wind, as they take cover in caves, behind rocks and in the towers of monasteries hundreds of years old.
And civil defense programs consisted of urging families to take cover and build fallout shelters and directing the development of community air raid shelters.
Since they are flying mostly at night, our main challenge is to lie low and take cover while letting them hit those empty barracks or the dummies.
Word to the wise: take cover when the sparks begin to fly and both sides let loose in the tournament finale on Jumeirah Beach on Sunday.
Due to the fact that we were late on landing, the tide was dropping and the craft was well aground, and we thought it best to take cover on the beach in a type of bunker.
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We only just had time to take cover in a sangar as they opened fire from the opposite hill.
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