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

under (the) cover of darkness/night

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• When life gives you lemons, eat the lemons off the ground under the cover of night like a possum.
  — Viktoria Shulevich, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• Gordon seeks this in the park, under cover of night or on the street, with passing strangers.
  — Rumaan Alam, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• Our plan was to fish in a canoe under cover of darkness into the wee hours.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2022
• Then it was all gone in one night when the Mayflower trucks left under the cover of darkness.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024
• The world looks, feels, and sounds different under the cover of darkness.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2024
• 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
• And outside the city’s walls, Abby and her friends approach under cover of night.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Apr. 2025
• The Colts first left Baltimore under the cover of night, there one day and gone the next.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 22 Apr. 2024
• These frogs were found under the cover of darkness along streams and are known for their distinctive vampire-like fangs.
  — Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Many species mate under cover of darkness, like calling crickets that find one another in the night.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Viewers in the Pacific and Hawaii may be best placed to catch the peak under the cover of darkness.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
• And that’s why the president’s actions under the cover of darkness are so worrisome.
  — Lucy Lang, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
• 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
• In the mountains of southern China, a small amphibian hops down the edges of streams under the cover of darkness.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The dramatic rescue in Afghanistan happened under the cover of darkness.
  — Alex Sanz, ajc, 7 Sep. 2021
• Creeping through the forests of Thailand, the nocturnal predator hunts under the cover of darkness.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
• And for birds that frequently wind up on the menu of hawks, cats and other daytime predators, flying under the cover of darkness can be a lifesaver.
  — Sheila Yount, arkansasonline.com, 11 Oct. 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
• The outbreak of tornadoes raked through towns under the cover of darkness — the most dangerous and deadly time for a tornado outbreak.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
• Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The desert’s nocturnal residents—including bobcats, ringtails, and even the rare ocelot—emerge under the cover of darkness.
  — Visit Tucson, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
• 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
• In Sydney, a synagogue was defaced with red swastikas spray painted along the fence, while a day care center was torched and scrawled with antisemitic slurs under the cover of night.
  — Victoria Kim, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
• 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 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
• 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