How To Use Camouflage In A Sentence

The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
At any rate, she rolled up the cuffs of her camouflage cargo pants a few times so she didn't trip if today's class required running.
Wildlife Watching Supplies stock a wide range of materials, olive green or camouflage pattern, lightweight, medium and heavy weight, showerproofed polycotton and waterproof nylon.
After the merciful demise of her husband in 1842 her activities became less camouflaged and in the 1850s she was involving herself in the serf problem.
The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.

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Back in the mists of time, power dressing was a thing for women who had to appear more masculine to be taken seriously, like stealth camouflage. Times, Sunday Times
Bitterns are virtually invisible as their plumage provides perfect camouflage.
As for the continuity goofs (of which there are many) - they probably would have been more obvious if the stupidity of the story hadn't camouflaged them so effectively.
They're complete masters of camouflage and deception.
Britain's only indigenous hare, the animals grow a white coat in winter to improve their camouflage in the snow. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly, some big cannons come rolling past, painted in camouflage colours. Times, Sunday Times
The camouflage Humvees were on every corner topped by national guardsmen.
He dressed in green camouflage which did the job at the time.
He wore a mottled camouflage jacket and a lightweight stetson and carried an automatic rifle.
He'd swapped that for a floppy sunhat in camouflage colours. SNOWLINE
Highly skilled Sharpshooter with scoped M 1903 Rifle, effective against all Infantry. Can use camouflage ability.
The U.S. soldiers, dressed in Kevlar vests and desert tan camouflage, were drenched with sweat.
The patterning is loud and garish but totally aesthetic, and functions as much as designer camouflage as an integrating device.
I realize that I'm not the most trendy person around but what is up with dressing children in camouflage?
What I cannot understand it's why GM puts this stupid camouflage in the car when the Volt is, by far, the most known 'unbuilt' car. Autoblog Green
I like to stipple the black paint with a green paint to produce a nice camouflaged body.
The men were dressed in camouflage and carrying automatic weapons.
Their white coats ensure excellent camouflage against the snow and are water-repellent.
The use of modern combat hardware and equipment sets higher standards for camouflage, concealment, and deception.
If they are there, they are well camouflaged. The Sun
Pink is said to be one of the best camouflage colours for the desert. Times, Sunday Times
As skin starts showing dullness and fine lines, choose a foundation that softens and camouflages flaws.
Her size was camouflaged by the long loose dark dress she wore.
The animal's markings provide effective camouflage.
We saw several fist-sized sea squirts which were bright pink in colour, and only when studying the photographs afterwards noticed that each was attended by a number of well-camouflaged commensal prawns, also pink.
Camouflaged clothing and scent neutralizers can fool a whitetail's eyes and nose, but there's no mistaking a human voice.
NARRATOR: Camouflaged by thousands of truckloads of legal commerce, multiton shipments of drugs come across the border with ease and efficiency. CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2009
The white fur of the polar bear is a natural camouflage.
That's just another way of saying they'll camouflage their failure to generate sales behind an intellectual smoke screen.
He says it could add extra ounces to his already heavy weight, which the star keeps camouflaged at home under tracksuits and three-quarter length coats.
Modern sensing devices detect objects or terrain disturbances even though they are well camouflaged.
In Britain, teams of crooks and engineers design camouflaged electronic devices and fit them to cash machines. Times, Sunday Times
The man on the prowl piddled in his Rambo-wannabe camouflage pants and fled the scene.
Drinking is commonplace in our culture, so you shouldn't find it hard to camouflage the limits of your infatuation.
Using smoke as camouflage, the army advanced up the hill.
Opposition politicians have accused the government of seeking to camouflage a military intervention. Times, Sunday Times
We also had the same camouflage jackets they wore. Times, Sunday Times
With the Camouflage armchair and the Flex coffee table Godoy is questioning why so many designers choose to cover relatively cheap materials such as particleboard, OSB and plywood, which are commonly used for tabletops, back panels and other furniture components, with wood veneer, plastic laminates or paint. TreeHugger
Another fact that could almost be a conceit in his own fiction is that Self's name is ‘semantically camouflaged’ as far as the internet is concerned.
The countershading of bat rays, a form of camouflage, protects them from predators above and below.
Animals have evolved camouflage to protect themselves from predators.
As we waited for Nkunda to arrive on our first evening at the camp, we were led to a "boma," an open sided hut topped by woven banana leaves where rebel officers - some in camouflage, others in track suits and flip flops - offered chunks of local cheese and hot milk. ANC Daily News Briefing
This was a useful camouflage, as they were both cool, torpid, and temporarily unable to fly after their probably nightlong tryst.
It is present in the camouflaged armed national guardsmen who greet members of Congress each day we enter the Capitol campus.
An anglerfish depends on its prey being fooled by its camouflage and by the fleshy lure into which the first ray of its dorsal fin has been modified.
The stunning snap captures the bird's camouflage in its natural wintry habitat. The Sun
Bara also warned that such a hasty accusation could prompt a perception among the public that it is merely camouflage for the real masterminds of the bombings.
The grey and brown fur of the deer blends in with the trees with almost perfect camouflage. Times, Sunday Times
Krainer was wearing a military-style camouflage outfit known as a ghillie suit. JSOnline.com
But, although it's undeniably visceral, in the end it's a sharp-witted study of sentimentalised violence and the use of language as a form of moral camouflage.
However, color display as well as camouflage is likely to involve visual signals, ambient light, and/or photoreceptors notably active in the near ultraviolet to which humans are not sensitive.
To confuse pillagers, exquisite bas-reliefs were laid face down to camouflage them among more ordinary blocks.
A resinoid of storax, fixed with tincture of labdanum (pressed from the fatty arteries of the rockrose), proved a sufficient camouflage for a walk around the block, but it had no more staying power than patchouli. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Perhaps soldiers patrolling in camouflage gear don't lend themselves to debauchery in the French Quarter.
So the designer created a camouflage affair complete with live wormery and army-issue blankets.
These old edifices camouflage well-stocked shops that carry crafts, jewellery, trinkets, carrots, clocks, wants and necessities.
It was a large archway beneath the railway lines, filled with smoke, camouflage netting and PR people in army gear.
I squinted in the darkness, bardy able to pick him out against the foliage in his tigerstripes and camouflage war paint. Rogue Warrior
Military surplus gear, from camouflage clothing to boots and whatnots, make up a large part of his non-gun-related sales.
It's a house covered in camouflage netting so people can't see what you're doing inside.
We will read more deeply into the landscape, camouflage with our surroundings, learn aidless navigation techniques and practice mastering the basics: shelter, water, fire and food. Theithacajournal.com -
Both the ships and crews were camouflaged, the ships and their rigging being painted sea green; the crews wearing similarly coloured uniforms.
The US Drug Enforcement Agency said the camouflaged 31m-long Ecuadorian submarine, a vessel capable of carrying many tons of cocaine, was found in a river near the border with Colombia.
The most elementary form of camouflage is to match the background perfectly.
We were also employed to camouflage military installations and factories.
The photo shows me aloft (they airbrushed the photograph to camouflage the torn clothing).
We also had the same camouflage jackets they wore. Times, Sunday Times
It is a cynical camouflage for problems caused by the boom and bust rhythm of capitalism, and the bosses' insistence that profits come before people.
As with gifts, people come in fancy wrapping that camouflages a dull interior, or plain wrapping that disguises a vibrant and exciting core.
He wore nothing but stained and tattered rags, and his dreadlocks were a mane of raggedy hair, so he moved in the engine room in a kind of camouflage. The Whale Warriors
Other camouflage accessories include camo tape and other items that will help hide a shotgun.
In any case, if the Karmapa were a planted agent, wouldn't the Chinese have encouraged him to camouflage himself as some firebrand activist? The Karmapa Conundrum
Bird - dropping spiders and crab spiders are also well camouflaged by colour and texture.
She was dressed in green camouflage and waving a banner that Ford couldn't read, since it was backwards.
On top of a rock, a blenny is transfixed, unsure whether to swim off or remain still against the background that no longer serves as camouflage.
Marines in camouflage fatigues and grease paint, along with a few frogmen, boarded three rubber boats for Yudo Island.
Forward allowance, or lead (pronounced 'leed'), became secondary to good gun fit, camouflage, decoy placement and close range. Bakersfield.com Latest news
The natural camouflage often found on the bodies of snakes is shown through the use of painted diamonds and triangles that appear throughout the length of the body.
Banks are offering credit a military camouflage design. Times, Sunday Times
Groups in other schools made camouflage nets, raised funds through the Red Cross and knitted for the men in the Forces.
He had one of those poor beards, the kind that camouflage a slack jaw.
In less than a minute, 50 hulking men have poured out from a blockhouse wearing camouflage, black berets and webbing, and clutching assault rifles.
Coloration varies, but is normally a brownish mud-color that camouflages these fish in their natural habitats.
Some of the dead wear green Libyan army fatigues, others the camouflage uniform of police paramilitary units. Times, Sunday Times
The trevally uses camouflage for added protection from predators.
Lumping all transition economies into the same academic pot has camouflaged important differences.
Use peach to camouflage pigmentation and dark circles. Times, Sunday Times
Special camouflage makeup can mask most bruising that still remains.
Their power, prestige, privilege and status essentially camouflaged the subjects' compliance to hierarchical authority.
While the UN loss was no surprise given Russia's and China's joint aversion to UN/NATO mission creep in Libya the double veto camouflages a more vexing development in the Eastern Mediterranean: a renewed effort by Russia's Vladimir Putin to reconsolidate a foot-hold in the Middle East against anti-democratic forces. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Syria's Double Diplomatic Muscle
Such is the method of camouflage in which a species evolves to resemble its background.
Some crabs actively seek anemones and sponges as epibionts that may be used for camouflage, and in some cases, as an emergency meal.
There were soldiers everywhere by now, shabby-looking in peak caps set askew and ill-fitting camouflage.
You can camouflage the bulb foliage by carefully planting summer annuals around the bulbs once all danger of frost is past.
Snake eels, blue-ribbon eels, exotic dragonets, inimicus scorpionfish, stonefish, seahorses and a host of other well-camouflaged species will slowly reveal themselves.
Back in the mists of time, power dressing was a thing for women who had to appear more masculine to be taken seriously, like stealth camouflage. Times, Sunday Times
The elaborate public displays of those royal families had always camouflaged the most ruthless power struggles.
Bias-cut panels and an allover pattern camouflage the middle.
The camouflage is even better if we ride close to hedgerows and trees.
The leaves of our giant rhubarb have been shown at school, used as fans in hot weather, draped over climbing frames and used to camouflage dens.
I also had a tiny smudge, rather than a bruise, on the left of my forehead, which was easily camouflaged by make-up and a fringe.
He was attacked by men who were wearing beards and long hair and had camouflage jackets. Times, Sunday Times
The broadcast said that the men were last seen wearing standard US military camouflage. Times, Sunday Times
She was no different, an icon of gold, camouflaged against the beige and sepia surroundings of Alexandria.
Whether they twine, cling, or ramble, climbing plants enhance good architecture and camouflage the not-so-good.
In a desperate effort to camouflage falling rents and values landlords have been offering inducements to tenants.
These, in addition to its natural camouflage, discourage other organisms from feeding on it.
Its body is albino and it has an intricate viridescent camouflage.
Other journalists favor small sedans and camouflage themselves with kaffiyehs as they drive the streets.
He was attacked by men who were wearing beards and long hair and had camouflage jackets. Times, Sunday Times
Not least because our crew, for camouflage, all wear wooden clogs. Times, Sunday Times
To camouflage spots, dip a clean cotton bud into a concealer that matches your skin tone and dot on the spot.
The grey and brown fur of the deer blends in with the trees with almost perfect camouflage. Times, Sunday Times
Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
Wherever the Baroque music was coming from, and it was somewhere in the room, the equipment was well camouflaged.
You can always camouflage milkweed by tucking one or two plants behind a couple of lovely buddleias.
Soldiers in camouflage fatigues and painted faces also carried heavy artillery to provide protective fire power in the event of a genuine security threat.
This may have served the purpose of camouflage, making the animal more inconspicuous.
He was dressed in a pair of baggy camouflage trousers, a blue-and-white hooped T-shirt and an unbuttoned flak jacket. CODE BREAKER
For instance, you can have a big yellow palm at the corner, with a bushy alocasia to camouflage the big pot, and a smaller asparagus in front. Undefined
I squint up at the buff man dressed completely in camouflage and raise an eyebrow.
Similar to Ecoregion 22k, some species of rodents and reptiles found here have developed abnormally dark coloration, called melanism, for camouflage against the dark lava. Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
Some of the dead wear green Libyan army fatigues, others the camouflage uniform of police paramilitary units. Times, Sunday Times
If they are there, they are well camouflaged. The Sun
Melanin, which provides a range of colors from gray to black, buff to red-brown and brown, provides camouflage for many birds and display colors for others.
I contend that such Biros employ an advanced form of camouflage.
He was dressed in a pair of baggy camouflage trousers, a blue-and-white hooped T-shirt and an unbuttoned flak jacket. CODE BREAKER
Graffiti may be seen as a defacing or destructive activity, but it may also be said to derive from the primordial desire for mark-making which is reflected - although camouflaged by various degrees of sophistication - in all art.
Aggression is often a camouflage for insecurity.
The grey and brown fur of the deer blends in with the trees with almost perfect camouflage. Times, Sunday Times
The troops camouflaged themselves before they went into enemy territory
His classy batting can camouflage tardiness in the field.
They are also aided in avoiding detection by dark bands and patches of dorsal color which act as a form of camouflage when the fish is viewed from above, especially by birds.
With his khaki camouflage and ID card pinned to his trousers he was indistinguishable, without closer inspection, from any soldier in the complex.
The constant partygoing of her later years was a desperate camouflage for her grief.
The gargantuan black clouds were overcast by a dense, opaque fog, ever converging, camouflaged with the caliginous sky that surrounded.
Powdered bronzer, applied lightly all over the face, can also help camouflage over-indulgences, says New York City-based makeup artist Maria Verel.
He wisely wore camouflage on his trips to Frankfurt: long-term investor brown.
Last season, Celtic's tendency to leak goals, particularly on their travels, was at least camouflaged by the fact that they were scoring them.
Their fellow residents' green camouflage uniforms in the middle of the desert and heel-driving march sets them apart from their Marine comrades-in-arms.
At the age of 48, and a celebrated actor as well as a dazzling filmmaker—I heard him described as the Chinese Marlon Brando—Mr. Jiang has the buoyancy of an absurdist, the edge of an ironist, the camouflaged instincts of a moralist and the limitless zest of an entertainer who, from the evidence on the screen, might feel as much of a kinship with Abbott and Costello as with Beckett or Buñuel. Bullets, Love and Beijing's Heavy Hand
There was weak support for spots in adults and stripes in young providing camouflage and for dark leg markings being a form of disruptive coloration.
Freezing is a widespread response to a predator alarm among many of the better camouflaged species.
The most common circumstance in which human swimmers are poisoned by fish is when a well camouflaged stingray is trodden on.
In addition, the Duke researchers are conducting behavioral experiments to investigate counter-illumination (a form of bioluminescent camouflage) and chromatophore use in cephalopods by placing them in tanks with walls of variable backgrounds and then photographing the body pattern responses. Scientific American
However, the tourist idyll is a façade and, in fact, Jelinek depicts a camouflaged dead landscape where neither the past nor the future exists. Elfriede Jelinek: Provocation as the Breath of Life
A group of soldiers in berets and camouflage emerges, crouched low in the fierce downwash from the rotors.
He managed to stay out of the gutter, his contempt of the frailties of his colleagues barely camouflaged.
The cold weather camouflage parka fabric is a triple layer laminated waterproof, windproof, and moisture-vapor permeable nylon material.
The Ghost crabs are named for their translucent bodies, and they are well camouflaged against the sand.
It was the seedy part of town that hides behind a modern estate that has been cleverly built in front of it as camouflage.
Your GP can prescribe camouflage creams to mask disfigurement of the skin.
Walking into the mass of silk, satin, and cottons, we became instantly camouflaged amongst the rainbow of colors flurrying everywhere.
He is currently trying to discover if rumours that the Eli Lilly factory was camouflaged during World War Two are true.
The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
The Emperor's palace was a tiered tower of scaffolding covered with tubing and construction materials, and the costumes looked deliberately bizarre: the Drummer (Jamie Van Eyck) had a tiny drum with enormous drumsticks; the magenta-haired Soldier Girl (Kathryn Skemp), who falls in love with the Soldier (Julius Ahn) after the two meet on the battlefield and are unable to kill each other, sported a petaled camouflage dirndl held up by crossed bandoliers. Writing Death's Gentle Aria in the Face of Despair
Inside the perimeter fence, camouflaged hides normally used for birdwatching have been installed to conceal the whereabouts of police snipers and bomb disposal teams. Times, Sunday Times
Amour-propre keeps us from knowing our limits, disguises the often crass interests behind what we think our benevolent actions, and camouflages the full extent of our pathetic vanity. Puncturing Our Pretensions
The patterned coats of sleeping wild dogs are easily mistaken for dead logs, elephant dung and fallen mopane leaves, providing them with perfect camouflage in their favourite habitat.
Unproductive meetings, domestic rows and uncomfortable social chit-chat can all be caused by status needs being ignored and camouflaged.
I saw a truck, heavily camouflaged with netting and branches.
Are we an independent and sovereign country, or are we still a camouflaged colony of the superpowers?
The stocky Melcher, who looks more suited to American football than mimicking a skinny pop star, steals the show as he grinds with abandon to the beat in a sweat-stained t-shirt and camouflage pants. American Paratroopers Go Gaga with ‘Telephone’ Remake | Impact Lab
Rather than an erotic jaunt on the part of two lovers, it was a carefully orchestrated semipolitical mission, discreetly sponsored by the U.S. State Department and camouflaged as a personal vacation. Bobby and Jackie
Dressed in camouflage, gripping his .357 caliber Magnum, Demar was primed to shoot.
This camouflages the fact that you don't know which end of the stick is sharp.
Participants will also find out how animals use camouflage.
Not least because our crew, for camouflage, all wear wooden clogs. Times, Sunday Times
They signal moods, intentions and desires; they identify and camouflage.
Smart camouflage jackets and peaked caps replaced the rags and turbans of the past.
The ‘Vietnam film’ corner - bullet casings, camouflage nets - sits among full size cut-outs of obscure Hungarian heart-throbs.
A mosaic of heather, grass patches and burned-off gorse in the Ladder Hills creates a fashionable camouflage effect.
Architect Keith Murray called on friends who were high ranking in the Air Ministry to advise on camouflage and black-out techniques.
What became clear after 1939 was that war offered the perfect camouflage for this annihilation. Times, Sunday Times
Otherwise the dazzling visuals increasingly seem designed to camouflage a lack of thematic rigour. Times, Sunday Times
The mine is designed to camouflage itself into the ocean sediments, much like a flounder or stingray does.
And only minutes before ascending, we found a two-metre wobbegong perfectly camouflaged in a bed of rubble.
For the goggles, I was looking at a green camouflage colour, lightish, around the $100 mark.
We think they change colour just to camouflage themselves. Times, Sunday Times
Her nakedness, though, is well camouflaged by a veil of long curly hair falling on her shoulders.
Terri was very skinny, and invariably wore huge, brightly coloured and loosely knitted jumpers which hung on her (rather aptly) like camouflage netting.
They picked their way through buildings and obstacle courses painted in camouflage colours. Times, Sunday Times
i was slowly returning to full consciousness and amusing myself by gently flapping my toes in the water in an effleurage motion when i heard raised voices from the hallway. i took a deep breath and thought about trying to hide by sinking under the surface of the water, but figured it probably wouldnt do very well as camouflage. You all know by now, i've got no problem going there.
Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
A group of nurses and soldiers in camouflage carrying stretchers rushed towards the scene.
After months in the desert, surrounded by drab camouflage gear, the soldiers smiled broadly at the flight attendants as they boarded the plane.
But when you Google "ghillie," the first and most abundant results are for ghillie suit, a type of camouflage worn for centuries by hunters, soldiers and, more recently, paintball enthusiasts. Fritinancy
They camouflaged their truck with fallen pine branches.
The ninja also used his skills of camouflage and espionage to shock.
Of course, we may also have a heightened sensitivity to the obscurations, fear and cloaking -- what we call in Shambhala the "cocoon" -- the web of habitual patterns and manipulation that passes for authenticity but is really a kind of camouflage. David Nichtern: Real World Meditation: Why Being Present Matters
Experienced researchers are wise to all the tricks used to camouflage a poorly prepared document, so do not encourage criticism.
All his art is self-portraiture while his pseudo-radical groupuscule, the toothsomely named Party of Dynamic Erection, is camouflage for the knock-kneed terror that its members – Wick, Irwin and Nipple Warner – all feel in the presence of women. Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie
The soldiers were in camouflage, with baseball caps and black backpacks, and were armed with rifles.
The camouflage Humvees were on every corner topped by national guardsmen.
On the racks were items for fall, half-practical, half-fantastical: silk-lined camouflage corduroy pants for $298; one of those big blanketlike belted cardigans (part acrylic) that everyone wears now instead of jackets, for $365; and a “pom-pom” bag, resembling an oversize Tribble, for $950. She's Mayoress of Tent City!

How To Use Camouflage In A Sentence

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