move secretly

Example Sentences

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Now, fearful of divulging their positions to enemy raiders, ships move secretly, radios mum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Propaganda & Intelligence, An organization operating throughout the world, often in conflict with local laws, must move secretly and be ready to defend itself against inevitable exposures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taliban opponent Karzai had to move secretly across this chessboard of feuding clans when he headed into southern Afghanistan, avoiding the Ghilzai villages.

From Time Magazine Archive

At length General Lewis detached three companies, commanded by Captains Shelby, Matthews, and Stuart, with orders to move secretly along the banks of the Kanawha and Crooked Creek, so as to gain the enemy's rear.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles

But the attentions of the police having become pressing, he was compelled to move secretly from place to place, until he found a temporary home in the house of a M. de Rambercourt, at Vetry.

From Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous