covering letter
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Every time you've got to send an letter explaining the reason I'm late," he said, adding that he was spending about £9 each time to send a covering letter.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
Governments have been invited to give their "feedback" to the draft before Sept. 6, according to a covering letter sent to the United Nations by Chinese environment minister Huang Runqiu.
From Reuters • Aug. 27, 2021
A covering letter showed that she’d arranged to sign these in front of the lawyer a few days later.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2015
Oh, and the time a woman emailed a covering letter for a job and instead of attaching her CV, accidentally attached this photo of Nicolas Cage instead.
From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2014
He delivered the report to Roosevelt on November 27, with a covering letter stating that he was forming an engineering team and accelerating all other necessary research.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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