Cover

The soldiers took cover behind a ruined building.

There's a $15 cover tonight.

We need to set another cover for the Smith party.

When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.

The captain signalled his best fielder from short leg to cover.

The covers were put on just before lunch.

He was brought in as cover for wicketkeeper.

The open intervals are a cover for the real numbers.

He covered the baby with a blanket.

When the pot comes to a boil, cover it and reduce the heat to medium.

The blanket covered the baby.

A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—[…]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

Regular hexagons can cover the plane.

You can cover the plane with regular hexagons.

All the while he held his hat in his hand; and even until he had given his answer, when he covered and bade us be.

The heroic soldier covered himself with glory.

the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland

The magazine covers such diverse topics as politics, news from the world of science, and the economy.

Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist, The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired.

Can you cover the morning shift tomorrow? I'll give you off next Monday instead.

He is our salesman covering companies with headquarters in the northern provinces.

Does my policy cover accidental loss?

We've earned enough to cover most of our costs.

Ten dollars should cover lunch.

Dad, when I get to University, will I be covered?

I need to take off Tuesday. Can you cover for me?

I wish that popular afternoon show would let us cover some of their commercials – their national stuff can be so annoying.

I'm surprised that the band covered this Beatles song so well.

Pent up in Utica he vainly forms A poor Epitome of Roman Greatneſs, And, cover’d with Numidian Guards, directs A feeble Army, and an empty Senate, Remnants of mighty Battels fought in vain.

In order to checkmate a king on the side of the board, the five squares adjacent to the king must all be covered.

I would like to have my bitch covered next spring.

The stallion has not covered the mare yet.

Among animals in a domesticated or confined state it is easy to find evidence of homosexual attraction, due merely to the absence of the other sex. This was known to the ancients; the Egyptians regarded two male partridges as the symbol of homosexuality, and Aristotle noted that two female pigeons would cover each other if no male was at hand.

November 22 — Owing to bad weather all machines flew at a height of 5,000 feet and covered the 90 miles in just 90 minutes . November 23 — During fourth lap ...

It had covered better than 840 miles in just a few hours more than seven days.32 The apparently clumsily managed shuffle through the various railroad nets ...

[…] he told plaintiff he would cover the table, and furnish it the same as the one he was sitting at, and that he should be waited upon and served the same as those on the other side of the room.

[…] the chef can send a runner to see why not and if the waiter has forgotten about the order, a runner can cover and serve.