24984 examples of cover in sentences

We had retired for the night under the cover of our tents.

" "Well," said Spalding, as he knocked the ashes from his pipe, and rose to retire, under the cover of the tent, for the night, "be it as you say, what matters it?

Cover with hot water and let stew slowly until tender.

Cover with a plain salad dressing.

Fill the dish with the mixture and cover with the dough.

Melt 1 ounce of butter in a baking-pan; then cover the bottom of the pan with thin slices of Swiss cheese.

Cover and let simmer five minutes.

Cover with fried bread-crumbs and bits of butter, and moisten with cream.

They became so worn and ill that they could only cover a few miles a day, and Franklin fainted from exhaustion.

Fifteen thousand Russians under cover of the gloom had come out from Sebastopol and driven our French allies out of their advanced trenches.

Even in the first year she printed 500 copies a month of her letters ("little bluebacks" the sailors called them, on account of the colour of their cover); but before many years had passed as many as 21,000 a month were printed and circulated.

First: Desire to "cover up" the player's own blunder.

I made my plans before I started, how to steal along under the cover of the blighted brushwood which broke the line of the valley here and there.

I tried at first to hide, to fling myself on the floor, to cover my face, to burrow in a dark corner.

There was something lively and merry in it, too, as if the flakes themselves were joyful and dancing in the abundance of their life,as if they and the wind had a life of their own, as well as poor stupid mortals, that cowered under cover, and shut themselves away from the broad, free air.

His trousers never cover his ankles; his cuffs stop far short of his wrists; his long neck extends beyond the reach of even his capacious collar; and the bone in him lacks amplitude of muscle.

At intervals, heavy carts, drawn by the superb gray oxen of the Campagna, creaked slowly by, the contadino sitting athwart the tongue; or some light wine carrettino came ringing along, the driver fast asleep under its tall, triangular cover, with his fierce little dog beside him, and his horse adorned with bright rosettes and feathers.

The dirt thrown from it was packed so as to form an embankment, on which logs were so arranged that it would answer for a breastwork, behind which riflemen could be posted under cover.

Huge masses of ivy now quite cover it.

He placed before the eyes of his royal master the opprobrium with which an alliance of the nature at which he had hinted must inevitably cover his own name, and the affront it would entail upon every sovereign in Europe.

To prevent difficulties on the score of national character, on leaving America the last time, Saunders had cleared for the islands of the Pacific and a market; meaning to cover his vessel, let her go where she might, by the latter reservation.

The logs were laid through the gardens, for the double purpose of getting soil to cover them, and to put them out of the way.

© on new cover; 6Feb39; AA304203.

NM: illus. & cover design.

cover design; 15Nov38; AA290599.

24984 examples of  cover  in sentences