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
Chinese vessels on research missions often give cover to military purposes, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
He said that would give cover to other countries, including those facing economic pressures and food insecurity, to side with the secretary-general.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022
It's a lie that worked for decades to give cover to their malice.
From Salon • Sep. 2, 2021
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
