give cover

These give cover to hordes of brigands, who prey upon travellers and merchants, robbing and killing indifferently.

All trees and bushes and walls and buildings that would give cover to the enemy the Browns had razed.

Modern trenches are intended to give cover from fire and from view.

Still less is it intended to give cover to any aggression by one New World power at the expense of any other.

Anything rigid in form and movable may be used to give cover from view and fire and to obstruct the advance of an assailant.