Example sentences for: covert

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

  • This is basically a covert, and mild, form of polygamy: High-status males get to monopolize more than one fertile woman.

  • CIA memo, summary of Covert Action Planning Group meeting, May 18, 1998; CIA memo, "Tentative Timeline for the Bin Ladin Capture Operation," May 19, 1998.

  • On June 29, 2000, the President authorized raising the CIA's covert action funding ceiling.

  • When the facts were revealed in 1986 and 1987, it appeared to be the 1970s all over again: a massive abuse of covert action.

  • The most politically explosive accusation is that agents of the Chinese government attempted to influence the 1996 elections in favor of Clinton and the Democrats through covert campaign contributions, and that administration officials were warned about the practice but did not act.


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