furtively

Example Sentences

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Bingeing can look different for different people, but for Specter, it involves “shoving food furtively into my mouth as quickly and passively” as possible, she writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2024

Some at the top of the Labour Party are beginning to think, if a little furtively, of the aftermath of 4 July, too.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2024

What’s not taught is that it hurts, as if a little creature is furtively rubbing your vocal cords with sandpaper.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023

BAKHMUT, Ukraine — It was midmorning last Friday when the camera of a Ukrainian drone zoomed in on a Russian soldier moving furtively among trees on the edge of town.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

They were speaking low and furtively, but they were near, and coming nearer.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien