Example sentences for: conceals

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

  • Altman uses a distinctive color palette here--a lot of neonlike primary colors, as if the whole Mississippi town were a blues joint--but his mastery is in his offhandedness, in how he conceals his own storytelling.

  • In one, a life-long friend declared: Dr. Hall had all the aggressive confidence of modesty adequately equipped, a judgment that conceals criticism in praise.

  • The façade of Sant Francesc, completed in the 18th century, conceals a delightful Churrigueresque Chapel of the Immaculate Conception.

  • Rather, Dark Side 's significance lies in the countermyth that Hersh constructs to displace Camelot--an anti-Camelot in which every public virtue conceals a private vice.

  • Slavin's uncluttered, room-temperature prose renders the monstrous familiar, even beautiful" (Charles Taylor, the New York Times Book Review ). Others note that "[i]t seems to be a common, almost universal, tactic in American literature to depict the suburbs as a duplicitous world where a safe, materialistic, blandly cheerful surface conceals a dark secret life" and that the stories' predictable outlandishness verges on becoming "precious" (Judy Budnitz, the Village Voice ). Or as Kirkus Reviews writes, "Slavin has a warped sense of humor and enjoys rubbing the reader's nose in it."


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