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EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a drunkard, and had a red face.
Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTIN
There lay Bob Rock, covered with blood, and apparently insensible.
About her neck was hung a covered basket and a door-key; and Davy at once concluded that she was Sindbad's house-keeper.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETT
When I went out he accompanied me to the door, took my hand in both of his and said, "To-day you've covered yourself with glory!"
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
Louis had covered his raging temples with his hand, and he hastened forward with distracted swiftness.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
And thou wast filled as a river with wisdom, and thy soul covered the earth.
Ramona had covered the box with white cloth, and the lace altar-cloth thrown over it fell in folds to the floor.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
WORDS RELATED TO COVERED
- abstruse
- arcane
- blind
- cabalistic
- close
- covered
- cryptic
- dark
- deep
- devious
- distant
- enigmatic
- esoteric
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- far-off
- hidden
- humble
- inaccessible
- inconspicuous
- inglorious
- invisible
- irrelevant
- lonesome
- lowly
- minor
- mysterious
- nameless
- odd
- oracular
- orphic
- rare
- recondite
- remote
- removed
- reticent
- retired
- secluded
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- secretive
- seldom seen
- sequestered
- solitary
- undisclosed
- undistinguished
- unheard-of
- unhonored
- unimportant
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- affected
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- assumed
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- so-called
- spurious
- supposed
- accessible
- adjusted
- all set
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- anticipating
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- expectant
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- cloak-and-dagger
- close
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- mysterious
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- on the QT
- out-of-the-way
- private
- recondite
- reticent
- retired
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- shrouded
- strange
- under wraps
- undercover
- underground
- undisclosed
- unenlightened
- unfrequented
- unintelligible
- unknown
- unpublished
- unseen
- veiled
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