covertly

Example Sentences

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When the two appear in court on Wednesday, police will allege they worked with a Chinese national charged last August for covertly gathering information on the Guan Yin Citta Buddhist group in Australia's capital, Canberra.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

I speak, of course, of the, uh, rising Winter Olympic panic that male ski jumpers, hoping to improve aerodynamics and, um, lengthen their jumps, may be covertly:

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Our team went undercover in the city, filming men as they covertly recorded women on a night out, exposing some of the most prolific operators, linked to 12 accounts.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

The text in Mr. Campbell’s book is more pedestrian—and more covertly opinionated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

I was by this point well on top of the situation, but the gentlemen went on laughing covertly.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro