Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for conceal. Search instead for conefl.
Definitions
Trivia Time
Which tools did the magician Harry Houdini conceal in his tricks?

conceal

[kuhn-seel] / kənˈsil /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

The suit will claim that federal agents lied about the incident and that the purpose of the government’s prosecution was to conceal agents’ behavior the day of the shooting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Nor, he said, would the retailer’s AI shopping assistant, Sparky, use information customers shared to raise prices or conceal cheaper options.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

"They are very sensitive to such measures because they could expose information that the regime has sought to conceal -- the realities of South and North Korea."

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Fires that burn slowly through the understory are particularly difficult to detect because the vegetation above them can conceal their heat signatures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The shrews disembarked and Matthias helped Log-a-Log to conceal the ferry in some bulrushes.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

The foliage conceals the drones as they are prepared, and a barn could do the same in the winter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The presidency is a skin suit that barely conceals this ambition.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

However, this apparent balance conceals strong regional differences.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026

Heusinger’s James has a seductive earnestness that conceals some shocking character developments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

That evening, Marlena conceals her black eye with pancake makeup and does her liberty act.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Since the arrest, detectives also found a second, stationary camera concealed inside a Taco Bell Cantina near where the arrest took place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

As many of the valves are concealed within the building, substantial sections of the ceiling will have to be removed to gain access, according to engineers in the document seen by the BBC.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

They successfully concealed intricate three-dimensional geometries, including detailed shapes resembling human heads.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

But the Rays recognized that Baker’s ordinary statistics concealed a changeup that might become the ultimate weapon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The doctors who had initially concealed that Bill Smith had given a last statement incriminating Hale and who had arranged it so that one of them became the administrator of Rita Smith’s invaluable estate.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Android competitors offer larger inner display areas, but Apple focuses heavily on the quality of the hinge and concealing the crease where the phone folds rather than sheer screen real estate, analysts say.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

On Wednesday, prosecutors from eight US states also sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, a rival AI lab that could go public next year, for allegedly concealing certain risks and implementing inadequate safeguards.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Hartnett plays the hapless man well but his naivety could be concealing something more sinister, as it did in the M. Night Shyamalan thriller “Trap.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Rika, concealing a pregnancy, agrees to marry a well-to-do American and move to Idaho, where Naomi is born.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Halliday slid the bookshelf back into place, concealing the button once again.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline


Vocabulary lists containing conceal

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training