How to Use under (the) cover of darkness/night in a Sentence

under (the) cover of darkness/night

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• Not the wee morning hours under the cover of night but the full-on sunlight of day, so ill-suited to haunting.
  — Mariana Enriquez, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Our plan was to fish in a canoe under cover of darkness into the wee hours.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2022
• The thieves aren’t just active under cover of darkness.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2021
• There’s a romantic mystery to it all—going out under the cover of darkness to make your mark on the world.
  — Katherine Hu, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
• The rani escaped under the cover of darkness, accompanied by her guards and, it is said, her son strapped to her back.
  — National Geographic, 6 Oct. 2020
• As the trucks arrived, still under the cover of darkness, an Israeli drone filmed the scene from above using a thermal camera.
  — Jonathan Baran, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• All of the Pierce County attacks came under the cover of darkness within an area stretching about 14 miles driving distance from north to south.
  — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2022
• The dramatic rescue in Afghanistan happened under the cover of darkness.
  — Alex Sanz, ajc, 7 Sep. 2021
• During the blistering daytime, these cats take refuge in burrows, only emerging to hunt under the cover of night.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
• Think about it this way: White supremacists used to disguise themselves in white robes and secretly meet under the cover of night.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 15 May 2022
• On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
• But by the time the captain returned three years later under the cover of night, most of his men had deserted, he was rumored to have killed a man, and an order was out for his arrest.
  — Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, under cover of darkness, an unidentified young girl bravely sneaks out of her own home at night and leaves apples along the road for the prisoners of Auschwitz to find.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Early on Monday, April 1, Israeli troops withdrew under the cover of darkness, ending the siege.
  — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
• Forecasters say the volatility could produce strong and long-lived tornadoes, some of which could strike under the cover of darkness.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2022
• Back in 2011, someone walked way out here under the cover of night and installed a mailbox, leaving no explanation aside from that three-letter clue: D-A-D.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 19 June 2020
• In four cities across Myanmar, under cover of darkness, armed groups took them to police stations, according to family members and some of the men themselves.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Danilov said Ukraine managed to deliver weapons via helicopter, at great risk under cover of night, to the Mariupol steelworks, which have been bombarded for weeks.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Apr. 2022
• Nevertheless Stugna held the road at two junctions and Ukrainian troops steadily withdrew from the city, on vehicles and on foot, mostly under cover of darkness.
  — Oleksandr Chubko Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• While scaling the towering steel barrier under the cover of darkness, Rosmarie Cepeda slipped and plummeted to the ground on the El Paso side of the border, shattering her left foot.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 15 May 2023
• The string is secured to a solid stump, usually alongside a major or secondary creek channel big catfish use as highways to feed, often under the cover of darkness.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2020
• In the case of Ramirez and Oropeza, the two piloted the drones under cover of darkness, coordinating drops with inmates who used contraband phones, according to the indictment.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• Last month, Putin visited the occupied city of Mariupol, traveling under cover of darkness to tour the city, which Russia nearly destroyed in a siege last spring.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• The anarchic spirit that had pervaded the hotel at different times in its history seeped back in under cover of darkness.
  — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
• But then, in 2021, authorities removed it under cover of darkness.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• To keep from losing too many tanks too fast, the 44th Brigade and other Ukrainian Leopard 1A5 operators should fight from concealment and move while behind terrain or, better yet, under the cover of darkness.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• With the internet shut down and under the cover of darkness, government forces went after protestors in Africa’s last absolute monarchy of Eswatini.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2021
• The photographs were taken during the daytime but printed in black and gray tones, giving them an eerie quality, illuminating what never could have been seen under the cover of darkness.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Migratory songbirds typically fly under the cover of darkness, but the reason for their takeoff timing has long eluded researchers.
  — Erin Blakemore, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• Nation/World Migratory songbirds typically fly under the cover of darkness, but the reason for their takeoff timing has long eluded researchers.
  — Erin Blakemore, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024