Example sentences for: veiled

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

  • Veiled Threats

  • Nor does the failure of Surowiecki's column to note its own thinly veiled role in the culture war surrounding Java that it describes.

  • She recently published a book called The Language of Silence , about German literature's relationship to the Holocaust, in which she accuses Grass of a flippant disregard for Germany's victims: "[T]here is an ingrained obtuseness and insensitivity to those who suffered and died, evident in a language where silence is veiled in verbal dexterity and a creative exuberance rooted in pre-Holocaust aesthetics."

  • The soft money is no longer principally funneled through national political parties; many candidates today have established political action committees which are thinly veiled conduits for their own interests.

  • Bennett, who had spent the weekend on Meet the Press and CNN's Late Edition making veiled and not-so-veiled threats to dredge up Paula Jones' sexual history (threats from which he backed off later in the week), was pushing a counterproductive tactic even further.


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