Example sentences for: veiled

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

  • If Tinky Winky (see "") has no explicit gender, how do you know that the handbag, tutu, and so on aren't veiled signals that Tinky is female?

  • That the original lyrics of "Tutti Frutti" were not just off-color but full of, as Miller puts it, "thinly veiled anal eroticism"?

  • 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."

  • A girl has recently had a birthday; there may be--though we cannot be sure--a veiled reference to her now being old enough to drive a motorcar.

  • It turns government suggestions into veiled threats and devalues true voluntarism.


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