How to Use undercover in a Sentence

undercover

1 of 2 adjective

• Byunghun and Jimin will play the undercover spies.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
• An undercover deputy was behind the fake ad, though, police said.
  — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
• And those master assassins would turn out to be a pair of undercover feds.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
• The men turned out to be undercover FBI agents.
  — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2025
• But the relative sold heroin to undercover agents and ended up in his own prison cell.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 30 Jan. 2023
• The guy who’s undercover from somewhere.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 June 2026
• And from that point on, Tony Conte, the undercover agent, got a remote starter for his car.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
• The undercover detectives made their ages known.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Police said Duprey sold drugs to an undercover officer, then tried to flee on a scooter.
  — ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
• Police said Duprey sold drugs to an undercover officer, then tried to flee on a scooter.
  — ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
• But when the undercover agent asked for more detail, Lemley demurred.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Outside undercover officers stopped a car with two brothers and their parents in it.
  — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2025
• Over the last two months, undercover agents posing as contract killers meet with Chowdhury to plan the murder.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2023
• The Wagoneer drove away, but not for long — undercover officers swarmed it a short time later.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• Since containers can easily be placed and moved undercover when the first frosts arrive.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 6 July 2023
• In order to gain the trust of a drugs dealer, undercover cop Robert has to pretend to be Leni’s lover.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Feb. 2023
• Patrons helped lure her outside so undercover officers could move in, per the outlet.
  — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
• Then again, Daisy’s decision to go undercover may not have been that well considered.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
• The guns were purchased by an undercover police office pretending to be a drug dealer.
  — Russ Bynum, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2023
• The undercover cops alerted Stefanovic, who followed the kid to a bathroom.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Margaret Mutch worked her own kind of undercover job, quietly tending to the words of others.
  — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
• The charges detail how an undercover FBI agent posed as a buyer for such access.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2023
• That was when Raines’ undercover mission, with her long hair hidden in her hat and the glasses disguising her face, came in.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
• For the undercover moment, the Friends alumna wears an ankle-length chunky gray sweater, black pants, and a distressed brown hat along with her shades.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
• In the season three plot, Reacher will go undercover to rescue an informant held by a haunting foe from his past.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
• In each show a celebrity superfan or Chiefs legend will go undercover to sample the tailgate food.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
• Off the heels of a miscarriage, Coltrane and his wife dream of a normal life outside of their undercover thieving and scheming.
  — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 15 May 2026
• The blue Charger lost control and struck the undercover car, and all passengers of the blue charger ran, the report said.
  — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
• The affidavit also describes a series of undercover visits to the club.
  — Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2026
• The agent acknowledged there were no undercover recordings, no text messages and no emails with Arencibia’s name on them.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2024

undercover

2 of 2 noun

• Thus the use of undercovers, to go in ahead and identify the staff.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 27 June 2019
• Back at the hospital Jack tells Brady that working undercover took a lot of courage.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 8 Sep. 2023
• Her appearance undercover in the movie's final scene seems to be a cry from Soderbergh begging for a sequel.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• Seven state police, some undercover, were inside the restaurant or nearby.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2015
• Twenty years on the force, including undercover in the vice squad, busting massage parlors—a story that never fails to get a smile.
  — Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 10 Jan. 2018
• Law enforcement officers working in plain clothes or undercover is nothing new.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
• Of the several hundred people who do face-to-face ops, most have only handled a couple of cases as the primary undercover.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• The show supplied a group of volunteers willing to go in undercover, and Horton was able to play a role in the selection of the final seven.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 19 Nov. 2019
• The same goal, mindset, policies and practices that governed the firm’s operations are still in place but conducted undercover.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
• Sources close to production reveal his character is working undercover.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2026
• Meanwhile, Chee goes further undercover.
  — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
• Linna enlists a colleague, Saga Bauer, to enter the hospital undercover.
  — Ken Tucker, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• Haspel, who has spent the majority of her CIA career undercover, is facing public scrutiny for the first time.
  — Emily Cadei, sacbee, 8 May 2018
• Farmer, who lives in Franklin, was nabbed as part of a two-day undercover human trafficking operation in Rutherford County.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 20 Nov. 2019
• Smith said the officer told him someone from the department had purchased some undercover on a previous visit and lab testing found trace amounts of THC in them.
  — Andy Marso, kansascity.com, 30 May 2017
• Alaska State Troopers made about 50 undercover buys from people without an alcohol license.
  — CBS News, 21 Sep. 2017
• Ideally, sufficient background has been done on the suspect and there is a surveillance plan in place so that other deputies besides the undercovers are monitoring the location where the sting occurs.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Four other agents accompanied me, all also operating undercover.
  — Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
• The Agency‘s second season will continue following Martian, a CIA agent living undercover in his own life.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 19 May 2026
• Le, who was working undercover, was shot while inside his vehicle after responding to one of multiple burglaries at a cannabis business on Embarcadero near Fifth Ave.
  — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
• The intelligence community has largely rallied around the nomination of Haspel, who spent most of her career in the CIA undercover.
  — Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb, CNN, 17 Apr. 2018
• But unlike seismic shifts of the past — ingrained into the American consciousness through a single catastrophic event — the novel coronavirus crept in undercover, one mind-boggling announcement at a time.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2020
• But politics hasn’t been the typical career path for veterans of the spy services or former top national security staff members, especially those who spent most of their time working undercover or handling highly classified information.
  — Byron Tau, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• Erica Meier, for one, leads a watchdog group called Animal Outlook, which gets the undercover, boots-on-the-ground activists into dairy farms, slaughterhouses, egg barns, and feedlots to collect images and video footage of how animals are treated.
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2020
• Season 2 of the hit Paramount+ series will continue following Martian (Michael Fassbender), a CIA agent living undercover in his own life.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
• First, in February 2008, a Dutch TV station aired a confession allegedly made by van der Sloot and captured on a hidden camera by Patrick van der Eem, a businessman working undercover for a Dutch journalist.
  — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026
• Masks were once largely forbidden on the federal level unless an agent was working undercover, said Michael Bouchard, a former assistant director at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives who retired in 2007.
  — Byron Tau, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
• He is aided by Yasir Abbas, a weapons specialist; Raghuveer Singh, a sniper who served in Kashmir and Tawang; Uday Bhan, an explosives expert; and Sukhbir Singh, an Indian agent undercover in Pakistan posing as a Karachi stockbroker.
  — Time, 13 Aug. 2025
• The result is that the majority — roughly 70% of public firms — of Self-Dealers and Value-Extractors still practicing MSV undercover are enjoying below-average as shown by the data in Figure 2 from Professor Felix Oberholzer’s book Better Simpler Strategy.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026