under cover

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.

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.

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.

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.”

While Abraham turned to the woods to stay under cover, in the alleys of Georgetown, G. and his friend K. found shelter from the rain and clearings in a narrow alcove behind a stairwell on private property.