How To Use Cover-up In A Sentence

  • The micro-mini white cover-up she had donned over her bathing suit was removed without circumstance, revealing a shimmering gold maillot that dipped very low in back and was accented by sheer finely-woven gold mesh across the waistline in front. Who Said It Would Be Easy
  • The discovery that the government was aware of the cover-up has really added fuel to the fire.
  • Stunned at this cover-up, I was rooted to the spot.
  • Their methods of cover-up and provocation indicate a consciousness of guilt and a fear of exposure.
  • Officers are also said to have colluded in a cover-up. The Sun
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  • If we're lucky, we may have someone in the family who makes the perfect cover-ups for the test of us: the wedding quilt for the newlyweds, the blanket for the new baby's layette.
  • It was an appalling catalogue of incompetence, lies and cover-ups. The Sun
  • The goons, the oilmen, the shakedown and the cover-up.
  • If there was a cover-up, it involved people at the very highest levels of government.
  • Through suppression of information, cover-ups, lies and outright gangsterism, these industry heads sought to continue their conspiracy against the public.
  • Nixon was forced to resign when evidence of his involvement in Watergate cover-up emerges.
  • Allegations of a cover-up of the effects of industrial pollution have been strongly denied by the Environment Minister.
  • Prof. Vidkunn Hveding Oslo, NorwayTHE KOSOVO CONUNDRUMWhat a courageous article John Barry and Evan Thomas wrote ( "The Kosovo Cover-Up," EUROPE, May 15)! Mourning For Microsoft
  • Corruption occurs when that information is not freely available - cover-up and concealment are necessary for insider trading to flourish.
  • So they know that they were uncomfortably put in a position of being complicit in a cover-up.
  • The reasons for this sloppiness in rear-end design is attributable to a number of factors including cost cutting installing a valance as a cover-up would cost more. Exposed Car Underbellies
  • The evidence suggests the cover-up was conscious, calculated and ongoing.
  • ‘This braggadocio, this bravado, it's all a cover-up,’ he said.
  • It is in the cover-up that we usually see the most egregious abuse of a leader's power.
  • No answer was immediately forthcoming to the delicate question but investigations will now doubtless continue amid fears of a Government cover-up.
  • The existence of a cover-up is not doubted by anyone in particular, you understand, it's just ontologically a doubtable concept.
  • So many years without hard, physical evidence; the extreme unlikeliness of a successful cover-up that spans over fifty years, one that would involve not only multiple U.S. administrations, but numerous foreign governments; the distances involved in interstellar travel ... Governments Suppress Alien Truth - Former NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell - NASA Watch
  • Maxis should strictly be worn only with a flat sandal and a short cashmere cardi as a cover-up—no jackets or long sweaters please, unless you are seeking the "Is Woodstock really over?" look. Spring's Prints Charming?
  • Conspiracy and cover-up theories still abound.
  • Salter's film is a bitter cautionary tale of political and naval cover-ups.
  • From bombers to blazers and faux fur to denim, the new season is the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a new cover-up. The Sun
  • Last week her set piece was a ripsnorter - peppered as it was, with traces of embedded humour - involving journalists, military mayhem, cover-up and collusion.
  • Continuing a policy of cover-up and concealment would be inexcusable.
  • The incompetence, the lies, the bullying, the cynicism, the cover-ups.
  • The beloved long pareo, the swimsuit cover-up of choice for so many years, has shrunk to next to nothing.
  • The discovery that the government was aware of the cover-up has really added fuel to the fire.
  • Allegations of a cover-up of the effects of industrial pollution have been strongly denied by the Environment Minister.
  • It is unforgivable - and it is absolutely imperative that we make speedy restitution to the victims of the cover-ups. Times, Sunday Times
  • Excuses, alibis and wild cover-up stories chased each other around Harry's brain, each more feeble than the last.
  • Critics have always maintained the present system smacks of cronyism and cover-up.
  • From bombers to blazers and faux fur to denim, the new season is the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a new cover-up. The Sun
  • the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up
  • From bombers to blazers and faux fur to denim, the new season is the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a new cover-up. The Sun
  • With each of your volunteer help of 4 hours this July collecting signatures from your neighbors and finical donations, the citizens of Portland will hold Sam Adams accountable for willfully lying to us to get elected, orchestration of an elaborate cover-up and abusing the power we granted him. Adams recall war chest: $2,778 (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • Instead, it will reinforce suspicions of an official cover-up.
  • Today's announcement smacks of a government cover-up.
  • On the other hand, the grave risks that were hidden in those leaked documents, as well as in all the other government distortions, cover-ups, and lies of the past decade, have been graphically illustrated in aortal red. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The authors put forward a theory of a high-level cover-up that involved the CIA.
  • From bombers to blazers and faux fur to denim, the new season is the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a new cover-up. The Sun
  • Removing the financial safety net of insurance from hospitals that attempt cover-ups will end the blasé attitude too many administrators have towards tragedies like Stafford. The Sun
  • Today's announcement smacks strongly of a government cover-up.
  • This recall is about holding Sam Adams accountable for lying to get elected, orchestrating an elaborate cover-up and abusing his power. Il bacio della morte (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • From bombers to blazers and faux fur to denim, the new season is the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a new cover-up. The Sun
  • Pretoria refuses demands for judicial inquiry into assassination squads De Klerk reformist image suffers as cover-up feared.
  • But what's possibly the most damning aspect of this is the level of dishonesty, subterfuge and cover-up.
  • We will face the shadow side of American power by examining the growing body of evidence for cover-up and complicity.
  • She wasn't going to be bounced into collaborating with any cover-up.
  • The discovery that the government was aware of the cover-up has really added fuel to the fire.
  • Guilt is not a true emotion; it is a cover-up for other feelings which we feel we shouldn't have.
  • An ancient belief system that lays claim to the absolute truth is ranged against modern institutions with a record of cover-ups and suppressing the truth.
  • Senior government figures must have acquired in the cover-up.
  • I was wearing a pale gold, off-the-shoulder, bell-sleeved cover-up that stopped a few inches below my ass. Recipe for Love
  • CNN's Brooke Anderson has more on the arrest, Gibson's apology for what he calls despicable remarks and the alleged cover-up. CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2006
  • The President was implicated in the cover-up and forced to resign.
  • In recent weeks the Australian media has given saturation coverage to criminal allegations of pack rapes, cover-ups and pay-offs involving high-profile sportsmen.
  • Today's announcement smacks strongly of a government cover-up.
  • Mr. Symonds offers a pitilessly clear indictment of Hornet skipper Marc Mitscher and his air-group commander, Stanhope Ring, for their mismanagement and cover-up of their carrier's wayward principal air strike on June 4, the "Flight to Nowhere," which saw their dive-bombers and fighters venture forth fruitlessly over empty seas. The Beginning of the End
  • Steal her kooky superhero style by teaming a metallic cover-up with a ladylike tote and shiny shoes. The Sun
  • Like an old trouper who cannot resist the limelight, he flounced out of a special parade of champions, saying he could not support sport as long as there were drug cover-ups going on.
  • MICHAEL SHERMER, PUBLISHER, "SKEPTIC" MAGAZINE: Well, Anderson, I need to previse my remarks by noting that, there are no conspiracies, there is no cover-up, there was no crash and the government never lies. CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2004
  • Officers are also said to have colluded in a cover-up. The Sun
  • Once again, it is not the act itself that is necessarily the real problem but the cover-up.
  • Then Mark Foley popped up (sorry) and revealed that not only was one of the GOP's staunchest defenders of "family values" on the prowl for young muscle studs, the cover-up of his activities was engineered by the Republican House leadership in order to protect their political asses from the wrath of the so-called "values voters. October 2006
  • They claim the expulsions were a cover-up bid after they tried to expose a slush fund run by crooked officials.
  • It was a candidacy that John and Elizabeth could sustain only via a cover-up --- only by keeping the unkeepable secret of Rielle Hunter. John Lumea: The John And Elizabeth Edwards Affair
  • Add to this a few allegations of cover-ups and fear mongering and an absolute media frenzy that further fuelled the feeling of terror throughout US and the world.
  • Glitzy jackets are a great cover-up - even over a cozzie in the summer Mirror.co.uk - Home
  • Allegations of a cover-up of the effects of industrial pollution have been strongly denied by the Environment Minister.
  • Was my state of perpetual motion a cover-up for an inability to sit with my new reality, my return to singledom? Beth Jones: Regression, or How Divorce Turned Me into a (Giddy) Drinking, Smoking, Post-Adolescent
  • The creamy concealers and highlighters in Pixi's Eye Bright Kit are the ultimate cover-up for bleary eyes the morning after the night before.
  • It is unforgivable - and it is absolutely imperative that we make speedy restitution to the victims of the cover-ups. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search fordeadly chemical agentsbut stumble instead upon anelaborate cover-upthat inverts the purpose of theirmission. 6 Movie Clips and Behind the Scenes Footage from GREEN ZONE Starring Matt Damon – Collider.com
  • Bodies is a complex drama that dares to go where no other medical dramas have ventured - into the culture of malpractice, whistle-blowing, cover-ups, star-ratings and government targets.
  • I've never liked McCoy--I think his bitchiness, which is supposed to be the funny cover-up of a tender heart, is instead too often veiled cruelty. Archive 2009-01-01
  • What's mostly happened since – the contemporary end of this scandal – is News International's still grubbier efforts at a cover-up. Don't punish innocent papers: it's the rogues that need to be regulated
  • Allegations of a cover-up of the effects of industrial pollution have been strongly denied by the Environment Minister.
  • Well, it's nice to hear someone in the midst of the maelstrom confirm what we already know, that a cover-up is going on.
  • Do you really have the ultimate overview - or is your confidence a cover-up for fundamental uncertainty?
  • You can imagine, then, how annoyed I am to find out that the so-and-sos have double-crossed me: the decent thing I thought they were doing was in fact an unspeakably sleazy trick that makes sense only as part of a cover-up.
  • By sticking to the line that the air marshals alone are right and everyone else is wrong they betray a mindset which smacks of cover-up and hints at lack of tangible evidence.
  • Now, to his delight, the suspicions of an attempted cover-up have grown.
  • In summary, he says, yet another shabby, tawdry cover-up by the Defence Force and the Government.
  • And the same lessons about cover-ups still go unlearnt.
  • From bombers to blazers and faux fur to denim, the new season is the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a new cover-up. The Sun
  • Deeply tanned, she wore a large sunhat and a white bikini with a short, almost transparent cover-up. Larger Than Lyfe
  • And finally, that the canonization process of Pope John Paul II be halted until there is a full independent investigation of whether the late pope was involved in cover-ups of Catholic clergy. Vatican Celebrations Overshadowed By Scandals
  • On the contrary, she seems to ensure its preservation - through the cover-up of another murder she replays the past, only now with the possibility of a happier ending.
  • If we want to be defended from the unspeakable cruelties of the terrorist by methods that are too ghastly to be permitted, we want the cover-up of those methods. Matthew Yglesias » Death at Gitmo
  • This thick-fleeced black hood, with contrasting black marl sleeves is the perfect cover-up this winter.
  • No matter how stupid a question or trivial an issue, the denial of full access to all files, working papers, memos, personal notes and so on will be treated as a cover-up.
  • Senior government figures must have acquiesced in the cover-up.
  • Historian Charles MacDonald has pooh-poohed the idea of a cover-up.
  • The article implied a news blackout or cover-up of some sort. CORMORANT
  • The organisation has expelled three members following an internal investigation over their role in the killing and cover-up.
  • There was no cover-up yesterday (other than the stripey blouse, obviously). Times, Sunday Times
  • Rupert Murdoch defiantly insisted on Tuesday he was not responsible for what he called "sickening and horrible invasions" of privacy committed by his company, claiming he had been betrayed by disgraceful unidentified colleagues and had known nothing of the cover-up of phone hacking. Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking humble pie
  • Do you really have the ultimate overview - or is your confidence a cover-up for fundamental uncertainty?
  • The article implied a news blackout or cover-up of some sort. CORMORANT
  • The bow theme is used to cover-up the nail and string holding the picture.
  • And it's a hell of a lot quicker to put on than the palaver of balconette bras, Spanx and fluffy cover-ups. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Now that the frame-up of the Egyptian has fallen apart, the whole cover-up has also fallen apart.
  • The discovery that the government was aware of the cover-up has really added fuel to the fire.
  • General Schwarzkopf denied there'd been any cover-up.
  • What types of reasons for discrimination constitute a "pretext" -- a cover-up -- when it comes to employer reasons for gender identity discrimination? The Bilerico Project
  • Now, before you Twi-hards write in, it doesn't have to be a gay cover-up these days but the fauxmance does have to help sell a film. The Age News Headlines
  • I knew that in the morning I would have to use cover-up on the new hickeys that he had marked me with.
  • It's one of the most disgraceful and shameful cover-ups in our history. The Sun
  • Removing the financial safety net of insurance from hospitals that attempt cover-ups will end the blasé attitude too many administrators have towards tragedies like Stafford. The Sun
  • ‘The families feel we are the victims of a whitewash and a cover-up in order to protect careers of certain individuals,’ he added.
  • He said there was also evidence of cover-ups when civilians were killed, including what he called a suspiciously high number of casualties that U.S. forces attributed to ricochet wounds. News & Observer: Home Page
  • But although Reddin never clinches his argument about the tragic effects of the Kennedy cover-up, he at least raises political issues.
  • Last we saw Ritter's character, Sean, he had rescued girlfriend Leila Sarah Roemer from a kidnapping connected to what he describes as the biggest U.S. cover-up of all time. The Event Returns with Close Encounters
  • As a rule of thumb, use olive- or yellow-toned cover-up or foundation to conceal redness around the nose and chin, and pale orange tones to conceal greyness and under-eye circles.
  • The Wacodebacle, when afederal prosecutor who raised questions about a possible Justice Department cover-up in the Waco standoff was abruptly removed from the case along with his boss, according to a court filing made public Tuesday. OpEdNews - Diary: Puddy's State of the Union 3/30/09
  • She tried to climb up to the torn seat, not at ease, since she was wearing a white cotton knee-length skirt, topped with a sky blue tube top and a matching baby blue sheer cover-up and an adorable little white beret, unpractical indeed.
  • In fact, the accounts are contradictory and smack of a rather crude attempt at a cover-up.
  • and world history where innocent individuals (or "patsies") are baited and framed for cover-up purposes. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Times Picayune had an editorial earlier this week describing what they called a grotesque and nauseating pattern of police cover-ups. Democracy Now!
  • Mickey Gillis, in her thrice-weekly column for the Globe, hinted darkly at conspiracies and cover-ups. A RODENT OF DOUBT

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