concealing
Example Sentences
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"Many animals, far from being concealingly colored, are very conspicuous objects in nature."
From Time Magazine Archive
Among California salamanders, those eaten by snakes are concealingly colored and hide by day, and those which snakes avoid as nauseous are loudly marked and go about in daylight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Obliterative climax of the Thayers' theories�which made Theodore Roosevelt gnash his teeth and boom "Nature Fakers!"�was the idea that flamingos are concealingly colored because their foes mistake them for sunsets.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the joyous young times, ere his great grief came upon him, all the objects which surrounded him were concealingly deceptive.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
Hazel was sitting now with her face entirely turned away, and the soft hair blowing concealingly about her burning cheeks.
From The Man of the Desert by Hill, Grace Livingston
