8 sentences with “covering”

My grandmother always wore a scarf covering her bust and a long skirt.

The brave journalist was covering a war conflict in a dangerous area of the world.

The printing press works by covering a three-dimensional impression of an image or text with ink, and then pressing that ink onto paper.

Napoleon's empire stretched from Belgium and Holland in the north to Rome in the south, covering almost half a million square miles and boasting a population of 44 million.

Astronomers think that there is a layer of clouds covering Neptune and that this layer is in turn covered by another layer of thick, hazy gases, which scatters the blue light like our sky.

That moth-hair covering is an anti-bat defence, a sonic camouflage to blur in the night's silence, and one so effective that the echolocator only elicits an audible bounce from six metres away.

Foucault's work analysed the history of culture in the West, covering everything from the concept of madness to state power, and from crime to sexuality, demonstrating the ways in which ideas about society and culture had always been shaped to serve power.

Between 1891 and 1896 Otto Lilienthal, a German aviation pioneer, tested several glider models. Starting from an artificial hill, he successfully made more than 2,000 flights, covering distances of up to 400 metres at heights of up to 30 metres above the ground.