cloak-and-dagger

Example Sentences

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Jackson’s love of these soaps runs deeper than the cloak-and-dagger plots and mustache-twirling villains.

From New York Times

But maintaining that electrical undercurrent in person was critical; for all the show’s cloak-and-dagger thrills, their characters’ relationship is the beating pulse of the series.

From New York Times

But as he gets more deeply involved in the cloak-and-dagger business, he becomes emboldened.

From Salon

To McCartin, the diversity of union-busting tactics employed by Amazon epitomizes the cloak-and-dagger coercion that separates the present from the past.

From Salon

"It was immensely nerve-wracking," palaeoanthropologist Dominic Stratford recalls of the cloak-and-dagger mission, the first time any part of a prehistoric individual has been allowed out of South Africa.

From BBC