CONCEAL in a Sentence

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Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONCEAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
conceal
 v.  keep from being seen, found, observed, or discovered; secrete
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As they pronounced these words they looked at each other with great amazement, and with such an emotion as they could not conceal.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIV
2  Since we are making a portrait, and since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
3  Not to conceal anything, the three first were more experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
4  There, some one might possibly know her and give her work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
5  We are sorry that we cannot conceal the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one deserted him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
6  Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude limbs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
7  It was in vain that Thenardier sought to conceal himself in the branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
8  It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PROD...
9  Since we have pronounced the word modesty, and since we conceal nothing, we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his Ursule" caused him very serious grief.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY
10  Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
11  He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet brands in such a manner as to entirely conceal them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS
12  Impossible to conceal ourselves inside it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply by countermanding the vaudeville.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
13  A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the brazier.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
14  Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach his bed, and conceal himself beneath it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
15  It is not easy to understand what they could conceal after what they said.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The highest art is to conceal art.
2  Be genuine and conceal noting.
3  If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth, but, if poor, it is not so easy to conceal our poverty.
4  He tried to conceal his heavy drinking from his family.
5  Frances decided to conceal the machine behind a hinged panel.
6  He had to conceal his identity to escape the police.
7  Laziness and poor forever is shameful, so everyone will try their best to conceal from others property, to conceal their lazy.
8  He is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard to conceal from the public eye.
9  I knew fortune-tellers did not express themselves as this seeming old woman had expressed herself; besides I had noted her feigned voice, her anxiety to conceal her features.
10  Art lies in concealing art.
11  Despite his outward display of friendliness, I sensed he was concealing something.
12  From a concealed vantage point, he saw a car arrive.
13  Reynolds has never concealed his ambition to be the top dog.
14  The trees concealed me from view.
15  He was carrying a concealed weapon.