How To Use Conceal In A Sentence

  • After a long, tedious sail, during which I was subjected to every discomfort, and exposure to the weather, as well as jeers and insults that effervesced from a corrupt heart, where they had been concealed for so many years, we reached a spot near enough to the land to discover a cluster of orange trees and a cabin. Bond and Free: A Tale of the South
  • To avoid fattening, unhealthful fats, you need to understand what types of foods they are concealed in.
  • Left of center a circular form hovers between the foreground and back-ground: both cell-like and lunar, it is concealed and revealed by waves of golden brown toner.
  • Be genuine and conceal noting.I write every wiod I wand to say on this small card.I wish my honey a happy Valentine's day.
  • The twist-up pencil point lets you dot concealer exactly on the spot without hitting the surrounding skin.
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  • Dense vegetation may conceal the nests and reduce the risk of predation.
  • The Queen pulled back on the cross, leaving the Governess holding the thin tapered dagger that had been concealed inside. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • I thought we were never going to reach it; and then, almost unexpectedly, we suddenly came upon it - a small but ancient village, rising up on a slight eminence, but concealed from view by big clumps of tall-growing reeds.
  • She took a leather strap and buckled it around my wrist, attaching the dagger to it, pulling the sleeve down to conceal the weapon.
  • I looked heavenwards as if hoping for a miraculous infusion of patience and tried hard to conceal my irritation. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • She sat down to conceal the fact that she was trembling.
  • Also, please keep in mind that in order to conceal my identity I'm speaking through a harmonizer--in reality my voice sounds exactly like Keith David's. Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?
  • The bright facades of present-day Willemstad conceal the dark secrets of offshore finance.
  • He sat at the opposite side of the table from Nero, his expression unreadable due to the fact that his face was concealed by a smooth oval mask of flawless black glass. The Overload Protocol
  • The defect in the software allows computers to be infected by programs concealed in seemingly harmless files or web pages. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her voice was disguised to conceal her identity.
  • As for the remaining four songs, 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' and 'Tea In The Sahara' are doomy ciphers, the former possibly about marriage, the latter open to a handful of interpretations, none of them exactly upbeat, while 'Synchronicity I' is a trifle explaining the title concept and the monster hit 'Every Breath You Take', is ostensibly a trite love song with it's icy and obsessive core just barely concealed. Synchronicity
  • Concealed carry is driving both nationwide handgun sales and manufacturer's R&D efforts.
  • Powder will also help concealer on spots blemishes. The Sun
  • Most significantly for the theme of this book we talk to: Conceal our desires, hide our vulnerability or confusion.
  • The meeting ended with the correct formalities, and barely concealed mutual mistrust. JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
  • Prior to the inspectors coming back in he was engaged in a systematic exercise in concealment of the weapons. "
  • Indeed, he made valiant efforts to conceal this information. Christianity Today
  • This allowed him to grasp a string attached to the neck of a bottle secreted in a concealed hollow inside the bark. Times, Sunday Times
  • The guns were set inside of hills, beneath reinforced concrete bomb shields, and concealed behind immense iron firing ports.
  • The brown water, grass-sheeted at the sides, conceals the bright yellow sand of the bed; when placed in a tumbler it looks clear and colourless, and the taste is perfectly sweet — brackishness does not extend far above Porto da Lenha. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Texas is also on course to allow concealed weapons on college campuses for the first time. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a centered closure, the zipper is concealed by two flaps of cloth running along either side.
  • Overseas Governments are not fooled by that concealment of convictions.
  • It's a powerful magical tool, a moonstone sigil named Concealer, able to render a man invisible. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • The insurgency is concealed in rugged terrain and grows stronger. Times, Sunday Times
  • She listens as to a fairy tale, and then I tell her of the stellar crystals concealed in the rough crust of the amygdaloid. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
  • So she makes her own using concealer and body lotion. Mixing Makeup for the Webcam
  • The only way to memorise a book is to say it out loud to yourself, and this I did, gabbling away as children do, my real purpose concealed because nobody ever listens to what a child has to say.
  • The beacon was surrounded by an anomalously flat area about 100 meters in diameter; anyone going for the beacon would be completely exposed for the last few seconds, an easy target for a concealed marksman.
  • It took an effort to conceal her disappointment.
  • Coming down the hill, out of the town, the delusion is that this great fresh-water lake is but itself a bay, the mouth of which is concealed from view, but not so, for its waters run clear and fresh, and as fishful as the Erne. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
  • The way in which the various issues that come to light here connect to the question of world, transcendence, and the conceallng-unconcealing of truth is somewhat tangled, and, in the period of the late 1920s, and even into the early 1930s, is not yet clearly worked out in Heldegger’s thinking. Enowning
  • Unless Boomer had been concealing it for some demented reason, some kind of lamebrained joke. Skinny Legs and All
  • It will simply conceal whatever gaps in communication there are under another layer of imprecise language.
  • A male Cancer-Pisces, fearing that his sensitivity is a form of weakness, may try to assume an aggressive persona, hoping to conceal his feelings with an overt display of toughness or machismo.
  • Her father, however, wore an expression of unconcealed anger.
  • This singular passion did not long remain concealed from the Goddess of Passionate Love.
  • Provos is an expert on steganography, the science of concealing secret messages in seemingly innocuous content.
  • Waiting time by specialty is meaningless as it conceals a wide variation among consultants' clinics.
  • Customs officers found a kilogram of cocaine that Smith had concealed inside his suitcase.
  • He feels no need to conceal his personal ambition.
  • The strangulation was the cause of death and the dismemberment was clearly after death, and most likely done for the purpose of trying to conceal the murder and dispose of the body. CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2007
  • The use of modern combat hardware and equipment sets higher standards for camouflage, concealment, and deception.
  • One of them featured a famous photograph of a gauzy Laura Ashley skirt barely concealing the sunshine-silhouetted thighs of a kindergarten aide named Diana Spencer.
  • Both of these concealment rigs are available for the Colt Single Action and I use both of them frequently.
  • Suits, skirts and silky lingerie both conceal and highlight the dark side of those who wear them.
  • All are so media savvy and willing to give information rather than conceal it... it somewhat puts their dads to shame. The Sun
  • Inadequate allocation concealment can bias the results of clinical trials.
  • He concealed the ring in a small pouch at the bottom of a tin of mints which he carried with him constantly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bedrooms each had a fitted wardrobe with a large mahogany sliding or tambour door (those in the smaller bedrooms concealing a vanity unit), which gave the rooms a tidy appearance and enabled them to be more simply furnished.
  • Amaya was dressed in a loose-fitting suit, the perfect cut to conceal a shoulder-holster. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
  • Concealed inside its villanelles, ghazals, canzones, sonnets, and prose poems are that country's unheard voices.
  • To discover whether ungulate coloration aids in concealment, we first tested whether uniform pelage color typically matches habitat background.
  • Fleda, my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a-jarring — "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment — I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears', without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife. Queechy, Volume II
  • What, then, we have to beware of, is not being refuted, but seeming to be, because of course the asking of amphibolies and of questions that turn upon ambiguity, and all the other tricks of that kind, conceal even a genuine refutation, and make it uncertain who is refuted and who is not. On Sophistical Refutations
  • In this Denver garden, the hop vine completely concealed its wire frame in a single summer.
  • But the noise hardly concealed the fact that most Laborites wholeheartedly favor modernizing the state-owned railways, which cost the nation $500 million in 1962 alone.
  • Ferris's essay, since the "failure" he notes here seems to be the opposite of the aesthetic's "failure" to conceal its violence that he was discussing earlier: here the law cannot come to representation, whereas earlier, the violence of the aesthetic had to come to representation (or more precisely, to recognition; but even the recognition of a non-representation demands a certain manifestation of this non-representability). Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism
  • The secretary of Elizabeth I's Privy Council is supposed to have submitted the warrant for the execution of Mary Stuart several times, concealed in a pile of lesser bumf, to help the Queen get over the hump. Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated)
  • His modesty and courtesy concealed brilliant intellect; this combination worked wonders. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
  • Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. Voltaire 
  • It has heat-sealed seams for additional waterproofing, embroiderable front-vented flaps, and concealed shockcord drawstrings at the hood and open bottom hem.
  • These all possess an extraordinary organ situated on the neck, the well-known Y-shaped tentacle, which is entirely concealed in a state of repose, but which is capable of being suddenly thrown out by the insect when alarmed. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
  • Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. 
  • This is the portal of its temple, through which alone we can gain access to the sacellum where its aporrheta are concealed. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
  • The plain was as flat as a tabletop, and she instinctively felt exposed and vulnerable, there being no possible way to conceal one's presence.
  • Oh, bah, forgive... "Emerson no longer attempted to conceal his smile. LORD OF THE SILENT
  • Women from Jane Austen and Mary Shelley to Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson produced literary works that are in some sense palimpsestic, works whose surface designs conceal or obscure deeper, less accessible (and less socially acceptable) levels of meaning. My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
  • Like my colleagues, I don't speak in jargoned riddles -- or, as he parodied in his "Restoring History" episode, arrogantly pontificate through pipe-smoke, an authoritative blue blazer unsuccessfully concealing my fey pink shirt. Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man
  • The padded valances and floor-length curtains concealed the architectural beauty of the windows.
  • The falseness, the unreality of perpetually putting on a public face and concealing personal suffering have clearly taken their toll.
  • Irving can't conceal his vicarious delight in this unconsummated passion, ‘which remained a crush, at room's length, no more’.
  • I fixed my hair and clothes and touched up my concealer and makeup.
  • Take an eight-hour course in most of the smart states and you qualify for a concealed weapons permit; note that owning a firearm is already assumed in those states. The Volokh Conspiracy » Changes in the Gun Culture over the last 25 years
  • As the evening comes on, an incomprehensible feeling of disquietude seizes me, just as if night concealed some terrible menace toward me.
  • Hide any blemishes and dark circles under the eyes with a concealer. The Sun
  • I saw nothing of the man but his posture of loose-limbed, helpless drunkenness and the ill-assorted covering of filthy clothing that concealed it.
  • He stamped his feet as he waited with barely concealed impatience for the telephone.
  • A woman might well conceal her condition for four or five months and procure an abortion, at the actual climax of which the abortionist might be prudently absent.
  • Originally the sophist was a lover of truth; then he became a lover of words that concealed truth, and the chief end of his existence was to balance a feather on his nose and keep three balls in the air for the astonishment and admiration of the bystanders. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
  • It stands in a cutting, and the hotel at the head of the platforms conceals the long, glazed vaults of the train shed.
  • They conceal erotic secrets and erotic treasures for which men have killed and been killed.
  • Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment.
  • Declassified intelligence documents as well as testimony from witnesses helped excavators identify the concealed entrance. Times, Sunday Times
  • She laughed, standing as cool as you please, very grateful to the eye in tussore coat and skirt, with open-necked blouse, and some kind of rakish hat displaying her thick auburn hair in defiance of the fashion which decreed concealment even of eyebrows with flower-pot head gear. The Mountebank
  • It is a fairly potent indicator of the show's future direction - otherwise so carefully concealed. Times, Sunday Times
  • She finally reached the correct wall, the one beside the oak tree that would serve in concealing her as well as serving as an aid to help her up.
  • The road was uneven, often concealing deep chasms, all too ready to welcome unwary travelers into the darkness of some unseen cavern far below.
  • Judges present decisions behind the veil of abstract principle which often conceals the naked face of consequentialist considerations of loss distribution.
  • At this time king Richard sent the abbat of Caen (who was also the elect of Durham) into England, to take an accompts of those that had the receipts of the kings monie: for this abbat had informed the king, that his receiuers and officers here in the realme dealt not iustlie in making their accompts, [Sidenote: Fraudulent dealing in officers.] but both deceiued the king, and oppressed his people, in exacting more than was due, and concealing that which they ought to stand accomptable for. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
  • A portside locker door is also double hinged so that it conceals a storage locker or becomes an entrance to the forward stateroom.
  • In the centre of the country, the alpine moorland and montane forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares conceal rare bongo antelope, red duiker, suni, bushbuck, Giant forest hog and colobus monkeys.
  • I stained my eyebrows with some of the dye common in the harem; concealed my female attire beneath a magnificent pelisse, lined with sables, which fastened from my chin to my feet; pulled a fez low upon my brow; and I sallied forth on my adventurous errand. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)
  • This is a crisis wrapped in an emergency and most likely concealed inside a right to-do. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was said that the police concealed vital evidence.
  • She cannily concealed her delight at his suggestion.
  • The sigil was perforated, like Concealer, and fit easily on the same golden neck chain. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • In fact, several guidebooks were conspiracies to conceal this information, and repel invaders from outside the initiated inner circle.
  • Be genuine and conceal noting.I write every wiod I wand to say on this small card.I wish my honey a happy Valentine's day.
  • Powder your concealer after applying it for extra staying power.
  • Then Jack is killed and their stern father Ray reacts with unconcealed fury, asserting: ‘He took the wrong son.’
  • But a string of losing bets led him to conceal funds and disguise increasingly risky activities from his managers. Times, Sunday Times
  • If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth, but, if poor, it is not so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat. 
  • In descending the Shire, we found concealed in the broad belt of papyrus round the lakelet Pamalombe, into which the river expands, A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
  • Livia settled all things for the succession of her son Tiberius, by continual giving out, that her husband Augustus was upon recovery and amendment, and it is an usual thing with the pashas, to conceal the death of the Great Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to save the sacking of The Essays
  • Greatest genius often lies concealed.
  • The foot-deep wall also holds a mirrored medicine cabinet and conceals a maze of plumbing, air ducts, and ventilation equipment.
  • It will come as no surprise to those who view Mr. Speaker Martin as incompetent, chippy and partial to the Government to discover that he is at the heart, yet again, of an effort to conceal from the public gaze something which appears to be unsatisfactory and discreditable about the conduct of the democratic affairs of the House and therefore the nation. Archive 2007-10-28
  • Alighting from a shuttle bus, the merry band of revellers spot a dosser lying prone and fully concealed under a blanket inside a bus shelter.
  • This allowed him to grasp a string attached to the neck of a bottle secreted in a concealed hollow inside the bark. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her body was not discovered until shortly after lunchtime yesterday when officers found it concealed in a shippon, or cowshed.
  • She studied the beautiful, dark-haired young woman in the high-necked black cocktail dress that concealed more than it revealed yet managed to be incredibly sexy.
  • It has created confusion about the nature of sociological scholarship and has concealed opportunities for many more craft sociologists.
  • Suddenly, the enraged father whips out a concealed hand gun and aims it at the smiling acquited defendant. The Preponderance of the Evidence, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • After the raid - and an unconcealed display of gutlessness by the major - the commando squad is forced to cross the blazing desert for a rendezvous with their reconnaissance team.
  • This is the truth that the American government is trying to conceal from the American people. Inside Al-Qaeda’s Hard Drive
  • It may, perhaps, be a question, whether the art which he used to conceal his passion, or the means which honest nature employed to reveal it, betrayed him most: for while art made him more than ever reserved to Sophia, and forbad him to address any of his discourse to her, nay, to avoid meeting her eyes, with the utmost caution; nature was no less busy in counterplotting him. VI. By Comparing Which with the Former, the Reader May Possibly Correct Some Abuse Which He Hath Formerly Been Guilty of in the Application of the Word Love. Book V
  • —The folium vermis (folium cacuminis; cacuminal lobe) is a short, narrow, concealed band at the posterior extremity of the vermis, consisting apparently of a single folium, but in reality marked on its upper and under surfaces by secondary fissures. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
  • We had a delicious gallop over the sands to the Waiakea river, which we crossed, and came upon one of the vast lava-flows of ages since, over which we had to ride carefully, as the pahoehoe lies in rivers, coils, tortuosities, and holes partially concealed by a luxuriant growth of ferns and convolvuli. The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • The pieces allow state of the art cookers, fridges, ovens, microwaves and dishwashers to be concealed behind beautiful facades and ingenious storage devices.
  • The edges and joints are dressed with slender sterling silver wire, both plain and delicately gadrooned, which more durably conceals the copper at the edges than plated moldings.
  • This determination, however, perfectly consistent with his former advice, he calls indelicate, and earnestly persuades his daughters to conceal it, though it may govern their conduct; - as if it were indelicate to have the common appetites of human nature. A vindication of the rights of woman
  • He scares me to death, he's so violent," Mary said with unconcealed hostility. CHAPTER V
  • He would show, as Ibsen shows, and with an equal lack of malice prepense, various detestable features which the mask of good manners had concealed. Henrik Ibsen
  • Wanley, it is to be feared, lags far behind the times -- painfully so, when one knows for a certainty that the valley upon which it looks conceals treasures of coal, of ironstone -- blackband, to be technical -- and of fireclay. Demos
  • Poor Kate was so chop-fallen, she looked like a convicted criminal, who would gladly have hid herself, to conceal her mortified pride and deep chagrin.
  • For hers is a job of concealment, as much as it is one of spectacle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mary, oppressed by the idea of ungenerous concealment, resolved at length to unveil her heart to a mother so tender of her happiness. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
  • A simple five-figure number might conceal extremely complex chemistry.
  • Over time, the plant growth not only concealed the structures; it also contributed greatly to their decay.
  • The ministers of the tyrant, by the orders, and in the presence, of their master, beat him on the neck with leather thongs armed at the extremities with lead; and when he fainted under the violence of the pain, he was removed in a close litter, to conceal his dying agonies from the eyes of the indignant city. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Her plum-colored dressing gown did little to conceal the teddy she wore underneath.
  • The Colonel reached up and pressed the switch hidden in the candle sconce, the concealed panel swung open. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
  • If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. The Secret of the Spirit of Britain
  • Calm and motionless, wholly focused on the surveillance of those below, the two men watched from their solitary position of concealment.
  • In some homes, instead of bare timber ceilings, the rafters would be concealed with plaster, which also was sometimes decorative.
  • The massive cloaks of both Virgin and Magi are the most distinctive feature of the relief; by concealing and negating the body beneath they deny the Greek heritage that is so conspicuous a feature of his other work.
  • Who is concealing deep feelings for you? The Sun
  • Prince John; ` ` this same springal, who conceals his name, and despises our proffered hospitality, hath already gained one prize, and may now afford to let others have their turn. '' Ivanhoe
  • By using removable armor plate and removable side panels, the seat is completely concealed when not being used.
  • fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness
  • He conceals his worries behind a mask of nonchalance.
  • Corruption occurs when that information is not freely available - cover-up and concealment are necessary for insider trading to flourish.
  • That is a positive averment or is concealment when one is under a duty to disclose; Siegelman's Judge Committed Fraud on the Court
  • The winter-bud is an aggregate of minute buds, each concealed in the axil of a primary leaf converted into a scarious, more or less fimbriate, bud-scale. The Genus Pinus
  • How could the victim notify the perpetrator that this communication was unwelcome, given that one reason it was unwelcome was that it was fake and that the fakeness was being actively concealed from the victim? The Volokh Conspiracy » Louisiana Bill Would Outlaw Insulting an Under-17-Year-Old By E-Mail
  • If you've been treating your complexion well, a dab of concealer over redness around the nose and mouth plus a dusting of loose powder will suffice.
  • As with most averages, these percentages conceal a degree of variation between individual schools.
  • He kept his horse to the edge of the woods, hoping that would give him some concealment.
  • He concealed the sweets in his pocket.
  • Notice, too, how the serving side of the island hides the cooktop, making it easier for the cook to conceal messy food preparation.
  • Thus it beseems a captain to conceal the secrets of his mind so that the enemy may not know his purpose.
  • Indusium minute, concealed beneath the sorus, divided into a few beaded hairs. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
  • Only the local fishermen know their way through the maze of tall reeds to the oases of lotuses and water lilies concealed within.
  • The work of the unrecognized dramaturgist who concealed himself under the pseudonym of Roly-Poly. Yama: the pit
  • Slime-filled canals in the creatures 'heads - known as the "ampullae of Lorenzini" - let them sniff out the electric field of bottom-feeding flatfish concealed in mud or sand, leading to a tasty treat for the prowling elasmobranch. The Register
  • Instead of concealing your secret ambitions it is time to show what you can do. The Sun
  • The van had a hollow bottom, the kitchen had been built over a cellar and the stairs concealed a broom cupboard. Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
  • Often the anxiety seems concealed under a discourse of futurity, in which attention is given to what life online might become - with contradictions deleted - rather than giving attention to what actually happens or has happened.
  • As the term tapered to an end, things went from bad to worse with her; and since, besides, the parting with Evelyn was at the door, she was often to be seen with red-rimmed eyelids, which she did not even try to conceal. The Getting of Wisdom
  • When the house lights dulled and the concert was approximately to begin, the mother returned to her seat and unconcealed namely the child was lacking.
  • `The smiling rascal concealing knife in cloak; The farm barns burning and the thick black smoke. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • Cate put Midnight back in his stall in the stable, then slipped back into the manor, concealing her riding clothing in the back of her wardrobe.
  • I meant to convey not just his strange, slow but charismatic drawl but also his character - unsentimental, tough to the point of roguishness with an unadvertised, indeed sometimes concealed heart of gold.
  • And he is wearing his neckcloths higher on his neck to conceal his jowliness, but I have pretended not to notice. Exit the Actress
  • But the fact of concealment, and the fear of the reaction, only adds to the sense of taboo. Times, Sunday Times
  • While a beanie hat pulled tightly over his face failed to conceal his identity, it did manage to impede his progress into a waiting car. The Sun
  • But lately he'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave, Rampage.
  • And I've been meaning to get a haircut, but now I'm quite pleased I haven't got around to it, since the sizeable bump on my forehead is concealed behind my ever-expanding coiffure.
  • This perhaps gives a special force to the Voltairean remark about the function of language being to conceal thought.
  • A kind of existential film noir, the movie seems to belong to the doom-laden era of post-war Hollywood, where shadowy streets concealed murderous acts and fate was always breathing down the neck of a scurrying rat.
  • Scarcely able to conceal his disappointment, he issued an emotional apology afterwards.
  • She would have erupted from concealment, all guns blazing, and made the ultimate scene.
  • He's a bulldoggish man, about 5-foot-9 with a strong handshake and a serious face that at first conceals his sense of humor. Slate Magazine
  • These "shall issue" laws eliminate the discretion of local law enforcement and licensing agencies to determine eligibility for permits to carry concealed handguns (commonly known as CCW, concealed carry weapon, permits). Josh Sugarmann: Senate Set to Nationalize Concealed Handgun Laws That Have Killed 7 Cops, 44 Private Citizens
  • The result was a preachy didacticism that is more likely to conceal human truth than reveal it.
  • We seem to prefer the smile that conceals an inner deception to the honest purgative truth about ourselves.
  • The existence of hatred need not be acknowledged, complicity in hateful practices remains concealed, and power is as comfy as ever.
  • The superficial distinction, that architects necessarily have to deal with the urban context while sculptors can choose to avoid it, conceals much more complicated variations.
  • The leaves are its main feature; with age it becomes rather tall, 6ft. to 9ft. high, having a woody hole or caudex, which is largely concealed by the handsome drooping foliage; a few of the youngest leaves from the middle of the tuft remain erect. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
  • Days he lived in concealment, and after the second Restoration obtained the title marquis, and in 1819 introduced a motion in the chamber of peers tending to render the electoral law more aristocratic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
  • Parker followed to the far wall where James inserted a magnetic card into a neatly concealed slot in the wall, and the wood paneling of the wall slid open to reveal a brightly lit corridor.
  • Generally, we advise premises to refuse entry to people wearing headgear that could be used as a weapon, such as crash helmets or headgear that conceals a person's age or identity.
  • There is no other process which contributes so much to concealment of the dream's meaning and to make the connection between the dream content and dream ideas irrecognizable. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners
  • If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth, but, if poor, it is not so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat. 
  • But for more than a decade that industry has concealed a secret. Times, Sunday Times
  • But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common – place and mistaken notions. Sense and Sensibility
  • He sat up in his bed without a shirt on and covers concealing the lower half of his body.
  • This analysis should also include all trafficable areas that provide cover and concealment, such as woods or draws for the enemy to use in countering the TOW. FM 7-91 CHPTR 4 Employment/ Antiarmor Company
  • The back cover is designed for one purpose only: to completely conceal the rear of the motherboard.
  • When the two had been introduced, Miss Davenport concealed a sneer with difficulty, Clarissa could see, and the governess was hard-pressed to stop her cheeks from flushing.
  • Fig. 1 is a plan view of a sheet of paper on which has been impressed a revealable concealed identifier pattern in accordance with the invention.
  • Place it so the front is exposed or conceal the contents by turning it around, making it look like a console. Times, Sunday Times

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