Example sentences for: conceals

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

  • His eyes are narrowed, his mustache conceals his mouth but is bracketed by laugh lines--he is made to denote some kind of perfunctory emotion, actual emotion being consigned to his grinning subjects.

  • The slickness and pervasiveness of the campaign conceals one flaw: The message--that all drug use leads to disaster--is a baldfaced lie.

  • This view, in fact, conceals a number of quite different roles for water-channel activity, involving the regulation of water flux and homeostasis at the subcellular, transcellular, tissue and whole-plant levels.

  • 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."

  • B. A cane that conceals a knife or sword


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