Example sentences for: veiled

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

  • It has been argued, but not definitively proven, that this is a veiled reference to the scandalous affair between Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton, a member of his parish and the wife of his successor as editor of the Independent , for more on which see Richard Brookhiser's article The Happy Medium in the New York Times Book Review of March 29, 1998.

  • 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?

  • The brilliant cinematographer, Changwei Gu, shoots her nude through a doorway of hanging beads, and in close-up through a fogged, rain-drizzled windshield; he keeps her simultaneously naked and veiled, and the effect is both alluring and unnerving.

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

  • 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.


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