give cover

Example Sentences

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"The judgement must not be used by Government to give cover to a system which shields wrongdoing rather than exposing it."

From BBC • May 7, 2026

They could also give cover to nations that would simply rather not attend.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

Such action could also give cover for more businesses to join firms such as Microsoft, Google and Tyson Foods in exhibiting the needed leadership to mandate vaccinations.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2021

The cultural resonance of these views — although they represent fake history — helps give cover to activity to would otherwise cause outrage.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2018

The mountain of Cedar, however, is probably Lebanon, celebrated of old, and sufficiently wooded, in the time of Aššur-naṣir-âpli, to give cover to droves of elephants, which the Assyrian king hunted there.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge