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How to use concealment in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Concealment means the practice of keeping secrets. Example: “The documents were hidden in deliberate concealment.”

Examples of concealment by meaning

nounThe practice of keeping secrets.

  • act of concealment
  • concealment of identity
  • The documents were hidden in deliberate concealment.

More sentences with concealment

  • The robbers leapt forth from their place of concealment.From the entry forth
  • On such openheartedness was their marriage founded that concealment or archness was unthinkable.2008, Rebecca Ann Collins, The Pemberley Chronicles: A Companion Volume to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Book 1, →ISBN. From the entry openheartedness
  • Protestant poets, however, wishing to proselytize, shunned esotericism and emphasized revelation rather than concealment.1987, S. K. Heninger Jr., “Words and Meter in Spenser and Scaliger”, in The Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 50, number 3, page 311. From the entry suasiveness
  • Arcanity, if there is such a noun, is not a deliberate concealment.1973, Ivor Brown, Words on the Level, The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry arcanity
  • In many places semiunderground shops and hangars were built with roofs sodded over and planted with vegetation for concealment.1947, United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Reports: Pacific War (volume 15, page 54). From the entry semiunderground
  • And the time was pressing, for the new queen was enceinte, and further concealment was not to be thought of.1909, James Anthony Froude et al., The Reign of Henry the Eighth, volume I. From the entry enceinte
  • And it's the teasing game of psychological revealment and concealment that makes Dorian Gray such a gripping tale more than a century after its publication.1997 April 11, Albert Williams, “One-Dimentional Portrait”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021. From the entry revealment
  • Nelson hid in the brush and traveled by night, frequently seeing some of these red-handkerchieved regulators pass along the road from his concealment.1920 October, William A. Richardson, Jr., “Dr. David Nelson and His Times”, in Jessie Palmer Weber, editor, Journal of the Illinois State…. From the entry handkerchieved
  • With reports of the Japanese forces bearing down on them confirmed, Rear Admiral Sprague orders his ships east, heading towards a series of rain squalls, hoping for concealment.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 10:57 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry squall
  • Whitman did censor himself often enough, changing pronouns in some passages, excising others, learning, in short, the "strategies of concealment" forced on him by the nineteenth century.1974 February 2, Rudy Kikel, “The Good Grey and Great Gay Poets”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 17. From the entry obliteration
  • My mother happily smiled and then, certain that she looked like a mouthsome Tyrannosaur, tried to stretch her lips down over her hundred teeth; but concealment was a lost cause.2015, Jonathan Franzen, Purity. From the entry mouthsome

Meaning of concealment

  1. noun The practice of keeping secrets.
  2. noun The condition of being hidden or concealed.
  3. noun Protection from observation or surveillance.

Full definition of concealment

Questions about concealment in a sentence

How do you use concealment in a sentence?
Concealment is used as a noun. For example: “The documents were hidden in deliberate concealment.”
What is a short sentence with concealment?
“act of concealment”
What does concealment mean?
Concealment means the practice of keeping secrets.

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