Usage examples for covering:

• Hurrying along in front, leaving the responsibility of covering it to the advanced guards which reached forward before the main bodies of the Divisions had time to come up, it drove the French completely out of their positions before Metz, and back under the guns of the defences of the place. "The Franco-German War of 1870-71" – Count Helmuth, von Moltke

• At one house a dog was barking, at another a woman, covering her head with her coat, came running from somewhere and entered the door of a hut, stopping on the threshold to have a look at the passing sledge. "Master and Man" – Leo Tolstoy

• His slender frame felt like iron inside its loose black covering "The King in Yellow" – Robert W. Chambers

• When I slipped out, fearing she might surprise me, I found her at work covering something up with a spade. "A Little Wizard" – Stanley J. Weyman