Example sentences for: concealed

How can you use “concealed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There's the cyanide-laced brandy left in the glove compartment, a concealed buffalo gun that shoots up at a hijacker's nether parts, and an outward-firing flame-thrower.

  • As Scott Shuger wrote, it was a "heart-wrenching story about a 9-year-old boy who concealed the accidental death of his mother for a month, leaving her body in their home because he was afraid of being sent to an orphanage, the Post goes with the bad taste headline of the year, century and millennium: "Mother Died, but Boy, 9, Kept Mum."

  • In March of 1943, Henning von Tresckow concealed a bomb in two bottles of Cointreau and had them carried onto Hitler's plane.

  • At the corner of Calle 14, the Museo del Ministerio del Interior has some intriguing exhibits relating to CIA espionage, including code boxes concealed in briefcases, decoding equipment, and a transmitter hidden in a fake rock.

  • Similarly, Bombay furniture (a style combining European forms with Indian ornamentation) provided the metonymic euphemism The Bombay; the Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the name is possibly attributable to the Bombay chair , wherein chamberpots were placed, as it was common in the past to have one's chamberpot concealed in a piece of furniture, which could then be proudly displayed.


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