furtively
Example Sentences
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Fly-tipping was also a problem, she explained, with vans pulling up and "furtively unloading" rubbish on to nearby grassland.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
Indeed, students spoke furtively of the dark arts of circumvention.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2025
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
You are likely not the sort of person who enjoys storming off from the dinner table, or crying in your childhood bedroom, or sullenly texting a friend while you furtively drink in the bathroom.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2022
With Dandy and Poteet watching us furtively from a dark nook beside the coal furnace, we began to work.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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