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covert - use in sentences
Object
- title: Skiers and boarders alike can compete for the coverted title of Ride Inn, Ride Off Champion 2006.
Converse of object
- show: As it flew away from me it showed white undertail coverts and belly.
Adjective modifier
- lesser: Also note the green gloss to the wing and brown lesser coverts indicative of a first winter bird.
- white: The Hawaiian Coot is a dark gray bird which from a distance looks black and has white undertail coverts.
- great: The greater coverts appear to have largely dark centers with only a narrow pale edge.
- primary: The white tips to the greater primary coverts are slightly more prominent.
Modifies a noun
- surveillance: The standard pretext for disguise is the loss of power, forcing the ruler to use covert surveillance to regain his title.
- ops: The game starts out with your character Alex who is in a training program for covert ops.
- operative: The intentional disclosure of a covert operative 's identity is a violation of federal law.
- operation: The film opens with a covert operation gone wrong in a Chinese prison in 1991.
- channel: Note: Covert channels may be storage or timing channels.
- racism: Is faith commitment the real motivation for many, or is it covert racism?
Modifying Another Word
- often: These patterns are the often covert forces behind the phenomena described.
- not: What parents want is community schools, with open access and not covert selection.
Noun used with modifier
- undertail: The Hawaiian Coot is a dark gray bird which from a distance looks black and has white undertail coverts.
- tail: Juvenile Long-tailed shows barring on the rump and upper tail coverts which juvenile Arctic does not.
- wing: The picture below shows one with few wing coverts.
- ear: The black on the face extends to below the eye and covers the ear coverts and the lores.
- underwing: In the sunlight you could make out the rufous body and underwing coverts.
- fox: The landscape is one of rolling hills, pasture, small streams, woods and numerous fox coverts.
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