Example sentences for: covert

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

  • During the spring, the CIA, at the NSC's request, had developed draft legal authorities-a presidential finding-to undertake a large-scale program of covert assistance to the Taliban's foes.

  • In addition, Bush and his advisers discussed new legal authorities for covert action in Afghanistan, including the administration's first Memorandum of Notification on Bin Ladin.

  • But the paper points out current U.S. officials acknowledge that no bombing campaign, no matter how extensive, can be expected to eradicate Hussein's covert weapons development efforts.

  • It engages in foreign espionage and covert action . (Another agency, Shin Bet, is in charge of domestic intelligence-gathering and security.)

  • They disclosed domestic intelligence efforts, which included a covert action program that operated from 1956 to 1971 against domestic organizations and, eventually, domestic dissidents.


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