under cover

Example Sentences

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However, Newey is said to have given his former Red Bull colleague a tour of the Aston Martin factory under cover of darkness on Tuesday night.

From BBC

Hundreds may have died as security forces crushed the protests under cover of a five-day internet blackout after the 29 October elections, according to the opposition.

From BBC

And when that longing becomes too acute, he starts to help them — gathering their firewood, repairing their fences, performing small miracles of labor under cover of night.

From Salon

A thief or crew of thieves recently carried out one of the largest art heists in California history, breaking into a storage facility for the Oakland Museum of California under cover of darkness and making off with more than 1,000 precious artifacts.

From Los Angeles Times

A dozen years and four children later, they were both seeing psychiatrists and dallying with other young marrieds in Ipswich, Mass. A decade after that, Updike darkly complained to Martha Bernhard, soon to become his second wife: “My conviction is that Mary has under cover of niceness been doing me pretty dreadful violence—while every violence I’ve done her has been overt and reprehensible.”

From The Wall Street Journal