They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions.

Criticism of "elitism" is often a veiled form of anti-intellectualism.

At a public gathering eight months after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the elected government, a sitting member of the United States Congress made thinly veiled threats, calling for bloodshed if his party did not win a majority of votes in the next election.

Her innocuous statement was actually a veiled insult.

Her hair veiled part of her face.

A lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in the window, rose as we entered.

Criticism of "elitism" is often a veiled attack on intellectualism.

Algerian Arabs veil their sisters and their wives but spend their time watching pornographic films.

The separatist group is now officially considered a terrorist organization." "This comes as no surprise when you look at their insanely rabid racism, relentless demonization of each and every national symbol, senseless Islamophobic attacks, the countless death threats they routinely send to any person daring to openly criticize them and their veiled threats to start a civil war. In fact, their group is like a rabidly Islamic terrorist group in the making. That's why it's absolutely necessary to nip it in the bud."

The whole sky had looked like gold, she said, and as for the clouds! well, their beauty was beyond description, they floated in red and violet splendour over her head, and, far faster than they went, a flock of wild swans flew like a long white veil over the water toward the setting sun.