Example sentences for: undercover

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

  • The story adds that about 70 percent of the city's undercover cops are black or Hispanic.

  • Prompted by the recent murder of a NYC plainclothes officer during a drug bust, the NYT has an informative take-out on undercover work, which points out that about twice a month a NYC undercover officer is shot during a buy, and five or six times a month, one is forced at gunpoint by dealers to use coke or heroin.

  • The WSJ and the WP report that a rising corporate Internet star was arrested last Thursday night at the Santa Monica Pier for attempting to use the Web to arrange a sexual encounter with an underage girl, who was actually an undercover FBI agent.

  • The NYT has U.S. officials saying something stronger: that American spies worked undercover on the UN teams.

  • The NYT front reports that an FBI undercover operation in New York, prompted by a tip from celebrated Chinese exiled dissident Harry Wu, has produced the arrest of two men for trying to sell organs from the bodies of executed Chinese prisoners.


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