Sentence for covering | Use covering in a sentence

Covering example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use covering in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for covering.

  • Then he sits down, covering his ears. (8)
  • Soames stood quite still, covering his eyes. (8)
  • She sank down on her knees, covering her eyes. (8)
  • He made a queer, whining sound, covering his face. (8)
  • Soames let fall the hand which was covering his face. (8)
  • He could dimly see her covering her face with her arms. (8)
  • And this view shook the curtain covering his lost Idea. (10)
  • The tent was in its old place covering the bronze horse. (10)
  • She held the cup out, covering her nose with her handkerchief. (8)
  • Even modesty seems too hot a covering for human creatures here. (10)
  • Even modesty seems too hot a covering for human creatures here. (22)
  • He sat down at the table between the candles, covering his face. (8)
  • An old beggar came limping by us, and wanted to share our covering. (10)
  • Mrs. Pendyce rushed into the porch covering her ears with her hands. (8)
  • And covering her ears with her hands, she continued to lie motionless. (8)
  • Victor had more need of a covering shroud to keep calamity respected. (10)
  • Minnie looked at it very near to, covering all but the face with her hand. (9)
  • Every evening I hid my head under the covering and held my thoughts in check. (12)
  • He had pulled my wet hands away from my face and was covering them with kisses. (1)
  • She turned her face down in the pillow, and pulled the covering up over her ears. (9)
  • Eveleen, not knowing him, would have had me accept the friendly covering of a mat. (10)
  • She would have given the whole prospect for the covering solitariness of her chamber. (10)
  • The felt covering the main surface of the roof should lap over the valley metal 4 inches. (17)
  • The Squire stopped with a hoarse sound, and stood silent, covering his eyes with his hand. (8)
  • His sandaled feet and ankles, bandaged as if for journeying, appeared beneath the covering. (5)
  • How can he eat, with the phantom of Rose there, covering her head, shuddering, loathing him? (10)
  • She put her hand to her heart, which beat as though it would leap through the thin silk covering. (8)
  • She felt hot all over; the palms of her hands were moist beneath the thin silk covering of her gloves. (8)
  • She assured me I was very pale, and I felt her trembling excessively, and her parasol was covering us. (10)
  • A bandage was fastened obliquely about my head, covering my left eye, in which was a dull throbbing pain. (7)
  • To the imprisoned one, shivering under the public covering, there came suddenly a noise of bolts and chains. (2)
  • Mrs. Maynard lay with her hands stretched at her side under the covering, and only her face visible above it. (9)
  • Mrs. Decie, covering her lips, disappeared with a rustling of silk; in her place stood a stiff man in blue…. (8)
  • The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. (4)
  • She was covering her face with both her hands, and the hawk, with a young rabbit in its claws, was sailing up again. (8)
  • She turns away, shuddering, and sits down on the edge of the armchair, covering her eyes with the backs of her hands. (8)
  • His historical recitals covering the entire literature of the piano were his most conspicuous achievements as a pianist. (3)
  • Low down in the corner by the door is a thick glass screen, about a foot square, covering the gas-jet let into the wall. (8)
  • In a half-hour he had pushed through a tangled undergrowth covering a boggy soil and entered upon firm and more open ground. (1)
  • The sound of wheels died away, but Soames still stood intent; then, suddenly covering his ears, he walked back to the river. (8)
  • Finally it was altogether loosened from the wreckage covering his legs; he could lift it clear of the ground its whole length. (1)
  • And then, as quickly, the fire went out of her; she sank down on the sofa; covering her face with her arms, rocking to and fro. (8)
  • Before they were half way through the meal, word was brought in of great breaches in the shingle, and water covering the common. (10)
  • Ladies frequently turned to look at me, perhaps because I had no covering on my head; but they did not interest me in the least. (10)
  • She became conscious that he was standing just behind her; his figure in its thin covering looked very lean, his face strangely worn. (8)
  • She heard him, for she made a movement, but without sufficiently disengaging her head of its covering to show him a part of her face. (10)
  • Margaret made some entreating paces after them, but she did not succeed in covering the retreat of the sisters against critical conjecture. (9)
  • The sides of dormers are made less conspicuous by covering them with the same material as used on the roof, but this is not always desirable. (17)
  • Cold-rolled or soft copper sheets, usually 20 inches wide, are used for this roof covering, weighing not less than 16 ounces to the square foot. (17)
  • The specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials covering the quality of cement should be followed where large purchases are made. (17)
  • While these words were issuing between the yellow stumps of teeth in that withered mouth, Hughs stood silent, the back of his arm covering his eyes. (8)
  • A cloak of thick rough woollen cloth, like the mantle of the ancient Dacian, was their covering by night, and their chief protection against the weather. (20)
  • Mention of the military cloak of enthusiasm covering Shalders, brought the scarce credible old time to smite at his breast, in the presence of these eyes. (10)

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