Example Sentences

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He had a fondness for half-concealing his cleverest effects, so that you might have to read a poem two or three times before you detect the rhyme of "dirigible" with "unmarriageable" or "rosy" with "Mafiosi."

From Time Magazine Archive

Soft Petrarca, sweet and subtle, Weaving still, with silver shuttle, Moony veils for human feeling— Thine the radiance from above, Half-transfiguring, half-concealing, Wounds and tears of earthly love.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various

Paresi approached him, half-concealing a small metal tube in his hand.

From Breaking Point by Gunn, James E.

This at length was able to take its free course when the following picture presented itself, where the Kammerjunker, as the Somnambule, his hand half-concealing the extinguished light, showed himself at the open window.

From O. T. a Danish Romance by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

"I will go to my father, then, or pawn my watch—something desperate I'm sure to do," he muttered, walking to a window and half-concealing himself behind the waves of crimson damask that swept over it.

From The Old Homestead by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)