take cover
Verb
Meaning
take cover (third-person singular simple present takes cover, present participle taking cover, simple past took cover, past participle taken cover)
(idiomatic) To shelter oneself
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11:29 a.m. – 11:36 a.m.: Library massacre As the shooting unfolded, Patti Nielson talked on the phone with emergency services, telling her story and urging students to take cover beneath desks.
After trying to take cover, she was thumped in the back and knocked to the ground, fearing that the kangaroo was about to claw her to death.
Armed off-duty police officers take cover during and exchange of gunfire with army soldiers, as they protest over police pay and working conditions, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020.
As the Union men advanced, Brig. Gen. Romeyn B. Ayres 's brigade had to take cover in a gully to avoid the enfilading fire.
A chilling video recorded from a street corner near the shooting shows a woman staring in disbelief as two men and another woman tell her to take cover.
Zuehlke, p. 191 One platoon was able to breach the barbed wire lining the beach and take cover in Courseulles, and then eliminated the machine-gun positions engaging "A" Company of the Regina Rifles.