Use covered in a sentence
Sentences starting with covered
- Covered with dust, splashed from head to foot with mud, bruised, tortured as if on the rack, he clung to the saddle, yet never ceased to use whip and spur, and would trust his message to no other horseman. [10]
- Covered with desert sand and blood, and fighting and raging after the manner of a Sikh, he could hold ten companies together like a wall against a charge of Dervishes. [11]
Sentences ending with covered
- Like the house, the man seemed dilapidated also: a slovenly, ill-dressed, demoralised figure he looked, even with his face covered. [11]
- The roof and sides must be covered. [4]
- And is it not appalling to think of the 'large constitution of this man,' when you reflect on the acres of canvas which he has covered? [6]
- I can't see his face--it is covered. [11]
- Is the instinct for the gin killed, or covered? [11]
- Often in the dark had she come to him thus, her gentle hand passing over aim to feel if he were covered. [9]
- At length he arose, and, lifting the bust tenderly from its pedestal, laid it upon the cloth with which it had been covered. [6]
Short sentences using covered
- It was covered with blood. [11]
- It covered a wide field. [4]
- Lacey reverently covered Achmet's face. [11]
- Snow covered everything. [5]
Sentences containing covered two or more times
- But one of those plates held red currants, and was covered with a red rose; the other held white currants, and was covered with a white rose. [6]
- In place of the prevailing hair-cloth covered furniture, the visitor had the satisfaction of seating himself upon a chair covered with some of the Widow's embroidery, or a sofa luxurious with soft caressing plush. [6]
- A good part of his face was covered with patches and bandages, and all the rest of his head was covered and concealed by them. [5]
- Over this work he frequently shook his head which was covered with crisp waves of hair; nay--he once flung the pencil, with which he was working his calculations, down on the table, leaned back in his seat and covered his eyes with both hands. [10]
- The area of consciousness is covered by layers of habitual thoughts, as a sea-beach is covered with wave-worn, rounded pebbles, shaped, smoothed, and polished by long attrition against each other. [6]
- By the time Achilles has covered the distance that separated him from the tortoise, the tortoise has covered one tenth of that distance ahead of him: when Achilles has covered that tenth, the tortoise has covered another one hundredth, and so on forever. [2]
More example sentences with the word covered in them
- On Saturdays the young men go out in their boats, and sometimes the water is fairly covered with the little sails. [5]
- She saw the young doctor driving towards them out of the covered bridge! [11]
- He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where--as old Nonna used to relate--evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. [10]
- I recall as yesterday the day Captain Clapsaddle rode to the Hall, his horse covered with sweat, and the reluctant tidings of Captain Jack Carvel's death on his lips. [9]
- This caused fresh wrath, and he furiously crushed the topmost sheet, already half covered with writing, and hurled it on the floor. [10]
- It consisted of wood and stones, and was covered with a thick layer of moss, raised at the head in a slanting direction. [10]
- Sensibilities not covered with their normal integuments. [6]
- His fingers fussed with the rug that covered his knees. [11]
- We covered it with swell tapestries borrowed for the occasion, and topped it off with the abbot's own throne. [5]
- We covered them with such rags as we could find, and started away, fastening the door behind us. [5]
- She covered them with rouge every day, to conceal the evidence of the sorrowful hours she spent when alone? [10]
- Thick cushions, covered with lion and panther-skins, tempted fatigue or indolence; and when the hero of the hour joined his guests, after his progress through the precincts, every couch was occupied. [10]
- It was covered with ivy, which grew thick and hungry upon it, and it was called the Cloistered House. [11]
- A partition, covered with ill-wrought images and a few gilt ornaments, divided it from the main body of the church, and the whole edifice produced an impression that was neither splendid nor particularly edifying. [10]
- He covered it with his own so quickly that she left it there for a moment, as though paralyzed, while she listened to the first serious words he had ever addressed to her. [9]
- And the dresser with her china and silver upon it, covered by years of dust. [9]
- Slender date-palms covered with golden fruit were scattered in every direction over the fields, which were thoroughly irrigated by means of canals and ditches. [10]
- Smaller hills covered with forests fell away on all sides and the tops of the trees caught the radiance of the sinking sun. [10]
- He was covered with dust and debris, his lights went out, but he calmly stepped through the window. [9]
- They were covered with clay and candle-grease. [5]
- It is covered with a marble slab which has been much worn by the lips of pilgrims. [5]
- It all ended with a feast at a long table made of sawhorses and boards covered with a white cloth, and when the cake was cut there was wild excitement as to who would get the ring and who the thimble. [9]
- It was covered with a cloth when I visited the studio, but Hermon himself termed it the statue of a goddess. [10]
- His eyes were wild, anxious and yearning, his face deadly pale and covered with a cold sweat. [11]
- Then when the whole field was covered with smoke, two divisions, Campan's and Dessaix's, advanced from the French right, while Murat's troops advanced on Borodino from their left. [2]
- Only a man who has experienced it--that is, has passed some months continuously in an atmosphere of campaigning and war--can understand the delight Nicholas felt when he escaped from the region covered by the army's foraging operations, provision trains, and hospitals. [2]
- The stones on which they had stepped were covered, and a deep stream of water, rising with every pulsation of the sea, now, where there was only a rivulet before. [4]
- The statues, of which there were many, bore strange symbols, the mosaic flooring was covered with images intended to excite the fancy and the fears of the beholder. [10]
- The velvet pall wherewith his parents covered the bier of their beloved and firstborn son was so costly, that the price would easily have fed a poor household for years. [10]
- Do you know what lies before you, if it should be discovered that you have covered the escape of the prey whom the patriarch already sees in his net? [10]
- In the roof were two oil lamps which gave a light strong enough to read by; each had a green-cloth attachment by which it could be covered when the light should be no longer needed. [5]
- His noble horses were richly caparisoned; purple housings, embroidered with turquoise beads, covered their backs and necks, and a crown-shaped ornament was fixed on their heads, from which fluttered a bunch of white ostrich-feathers. [10]
- The magnificent apartments were made as light as day by thousands of wax-candles in silver and bronze candelabra; costly Gobelin tapestry and purple Flanders hangings covered the walls, and the bright hues of the paintings were reflected from the polished floors, flooded with brilliant light. [10]
- The forest pools were cracked and dry, the Spanish moss was a haggard gray, and under the sun was the haze which covered the land like a saffron mantle. [9]
- The most costly were covered with fine red linen, wound about with strings of beads and gold ornaments, and with the name of the dead painted on the upper side. [10]
- Their halberd staves were covered with crimson velvet, fastened with gilt nails, and ornamented with gold tassels. [5]
- The fairest houses were ceiled within with mortar and covered with plaster, the whiteness and evenness of which excited Harrison's admiration. [4]
- An incessant bustle went on, to and fro between these rooms and the great library, and the tables were covered with rolls and tablets containing ancient prophecies, horoscopes and potent exorcisms. [10]
- But as I went in to luncheon, I passed a gentleman standing in custody of a plate half covered with sovereigns. [6]
- The farther Katuti went in the lamentably incorrect epistle--which she could only decipher with difficulty--which her darling had written to her, the paler grew her face, which she several times covered with her trembling hands, from which the letter dropped. [10]
- Still wandering along, we were at last pointed to a hill in the distance, a part of the summit of which was covered with Indian corn. [6]
- Four years ago we had our hands read out to us as if our plans had been covered with print. [5]
- At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss. [4]
- This granite couch we covered with the dry and springy moss, which we stripped off in heavy fleeces a foot thick from the bowlders. [4]
- As soon as we came out upon the southern slope we found great open spaces, covered with succulent grass, and giving excellent pasturage to cattle. [4]
- We made our way very slowly; and it was ten o'clock before we reached what appeared to be the summit, a ridge deeply covered with moss, low balsams, and blueberry-bushes. [4]
- Part of the way it was covered with small, loose stones--we trod on six at a time, and they all rolled. [5]
- Our friends in Washington watched the weary days go by, while they waited for Pete and covered his name with reproaches because of his calamitous procrastinations. [5]
- Yes, there it was, half covered by the ruins, but its head was erect in the midst of fire and disaster. [11]
- The building, indeed, was symbolic of a decadent and bewildered Puritanism in its pathetic attempt to keep abreast with the age, to compromise with anarchy, merely achieving a nondescript medley of rounded, knob-like towers covered with mulberry-stained shingles. [9]
- There Platon Karataev was sitting covered up--head and all--with his greatcoat as if it were a vestment, telling the soldiers in his effective and pleasant though now feeble voice a story Pierre knew. [2]
- As the sun was setting they went in a covered boat through the Agathodamon Canal to Lake Mareotis. [10]
- The boisterous day was reddening to its close as the Colonel lined his little army in front of the wood, and we covered the space of four thousand. [9]
- The slender figure was poised on one foot; the other, covered to the ankle with the long robe, hovered in the air. [10]
- Although the sky was now covered with mist and a hot sweltering south-wind had risen, he prepared to start at once. [10]
- This discussion, which was not at all by way of a jest, amused Dada far more than the tablets, cylinders and cones covered with numbers and cabalistic signs, to which Medius tried to direct her attention. [10]
- The doomed man was marched down a hall and out at a door-way into the covered Bridge of Sighs, through it and into the dungeon and unto his death. [5]
- The old physician was holding the gasping woman in his arms, and Eva knelt beside the high bedstead sobbing, as she covered the dry, burning hand with kisses. [10]
- The large room was full of light, and through the half-dozen windows burst upon her the enchanting scene of the Bay, Henderson sat at his table, which was covered with neatly arranged legal documents, but bowed over it, his head resting upon his arms. [4]
- The distance covered was four hundred yards. [5]
- Now the table was covered with parchments and papers, and beside Colonel Clark sat a grave gentleman of about his own age. [9]
- His own couch was covered with fresh linen for the guest--Ulrich already lay in his bed, apparently asleep. [10]
- The sick man was borne round the eastern side of the huge building, which covered a space on which a whole village might have stood. [10]
- And so it was agreed that he should carry her back in his covered wagon that very night. [6]
- Between its windows was a table covered with a long, white cloth reaching to the floor, on which, amidst the silverware and glass, was set a tall vase filled with dusky roses. [9]
- If there ever was a restaurant there, it must have been in Smyrna's palmy days, when the hills were covered with palaces. [5]
- Near the box was a pile of bank notes and a piece of paper covered with figured in pencil. [5]
- Above these the walls were covered with a beautiful dark green material brought from Sais, and the same stuff was used to cover the long divans by the wall. [10]
- First a long wain covered in by a tilt so high I trove that meseemed many a town gate might be over low to let it pass; and it was drawn by four right small little horses, with dark matted coats and bright, wilful eyes. [10]
- His dreams of vengeance were abruptly broken by a messenger, covered with dust from head to foot; he brought good news: Orion was taken and safely bestowed in the Kadi's house. [10]
- They saw the vault covered, and the stone fixed down. [12]
- The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place. [2]
- The thin lace vail which partially covered her face did not so much conceal as heighten her beauty. [5]
- The explosion threw us all to the ground, and covered us with dirt and debris; it frightened us extremely, too, for the crash it made was deafening, and the violence of the shock made the ground tremble. [5]
- He looked now upon the characters that covered it, and felt that he was unable to read a word. [10]
- Before a fire upon a seat like a bedstead, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes and all the tayles hanging by. [4]
- He had covered up the bust of Liberty so closely, that not an outline betrayed itself through the heavy folds of drapery in which it was wrapped. [6]
- He curled himself up shivering under the sheep-skin which covered only half his body, for the icy night wind now blew through the opening of the cave, which by day was as hot as an oven. [10]
- Hast thou covered up his footsteps with thy flood? [11]
- On it went, under the wide spans of the old wooden, covered bridge, swirling around the great rocks on which the piers stood, spreading away below in shallows, and taking the shadows of a row of maples that lined the green shore. [4]
- Hid away close under the eaves she found an old trunk covered with dust and cobwebs. [6]
- Tears, genuine, honest, unaffected tears filled her eyes as she went on: "Here I he, a poor sickly woman, sensitive in body and in soul as if I were covered with wounds. [10]
- We visited the two long, covered wooden bridges which span the green and brilliant Reuss just below where it goes plunging and hurrahing out of the lake. [5]
- A linen cloth, trimmed with lace, covered the face. [10]
- A curtain of transparent gauze screened him from flies and gnats, and a tightly-woven mat of lilies and other flowers covered his feet and exhaled sweet odors for him and for the pretty singer who sat by his side. [10]
- He had them trained on that portion of the advancing infantry of Ali Wad Hei not yet covered by his own forces. [11]
- Before the bacchanalian train which accompanied him, and behind the musicians who followed, moved two elephants bearing between them, as a light burden, some unrecognizable object covered with a purple cloth. [10]
- He was driving toward Pierre in a covered gig, sitting beside a young surgeon, and on recognizing Pierre he told the Cossack who occupied the driver's seat to pull up. [2]
- At last, they tore him from me, and I followed sobbing after them, and saw them fling him into the sea --then I covered my face with my hands. [5]
- Why are the tops of mountains continually covered with snow [sic]? [5]
- The sign-boards on top had invited customers into shop or inn, and the roll of carpet beneath was perhaps to have covered some floor to-morrow. [10]
- The Emperor's room, too, had an altered aspect, for, instead of a few letters and despatches, his writing-table was now covered not only with maps and plans, but lists and tables referring to the condition of his army. [10]
- Do not expect too much ground to be covered in this rapid survey. [3]
- When they came to the higher banks covered with dense scrub, Angers paused, and told Marie where they were. [11]
- I haven't anything to offer; you have covered the whole ground. [5]
- I would like to know, in the case covered by the essay, what condition the people of the Territory are in before they reach the number of ten thousand? [7]
- Kasana sat opposite to him on a seat covered with a panther-skin, drawing the fine wool from the distaff. [10]
- And what was to be seen on the spot he indicated was so horrible that she again shut her eyes, and this time she even covered them with her hands. [10]
- These, which used to be open, are now covered over, and thus the epitaph becomes somewhat puzzling, as there is nothing to remind one of Venice in walking about the town. [6]
- But after a tiresome march of almost half a mile, we came to a hill covered thick with a crumbly rubbish of stones, and so steep that no man of us all was now in a condition to climb it. [5]
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