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    Use "furtively" in a sentence

    furtively example sentences

    furtively


    1. Peadar lowered his head but looked furtively at the sharply dressed Theo


    2. Their sergeant conferred furtively with a girl within


    3. furtively about he was relieved to find that no-one


    4. frustration and looked furtively back in the direction


    5. shoes off in the back hall, he furtively disappeared into the study


    6. I stood a few moments longer, but the burial was evidently not to be proceeded with in my presence, so I discreetly withdrew, followed by some niggers, who furtively watched me well down the road before returning to the grave side


    7. Ethan went for his pack of cigarettes, shaking his head furtively


    8. They whisper and plot furtively


    9. George feigned interest but was furtively looking around at everyone


    10. I could see some of the inhabitants furtively observing our progress, but no one moved to stop us

    11. Then, to my horror, in the undergrowth above the river, a horse and rider pulled up! A man in a long cape dismounted and furtively loped across the clearing directly at me


    12. His father had ‘disappeared’ ten years previously… “The Guardia,” he whispered, looking around furtively as if expecting them to pop out from under the bed


    13. courage, he furtively walked a few yards ahead and


    14. without a sound, furtively her place they found


    15. He shifted his fat body on his marble seat and glanced furtively about, as if in quest of a lurking enemy


    16. As I furtively survey this littered landscape


    17. � His desk at the Daily Telegraph looked decidedly a lot safer now as he glanced furtively at the German soldiers massing for an assault less than 200 yards away


    18. Jason Sterling could have just waved a friendly goodbye from the window, when Max had turned suddenly, but he reacted furtively, as any guilty person would


    19. Lorene Eagles stood furtively in the bay of the lounge window and watched Rudolph retreat to his car where his sergeant waited, braced against the boot with the collar of his top coat tight around his ears, guarding against the chill


    20. Jack looked over at the Chief and Alice who were smiling furtively and trying not to laugh

    21. She watched Vincent furtively tap his wrist watch with his


    22. pushing his empty salad plate to the side and furtively


    23. ” She paused and smiled furtively at Katie


    24. He caught Father furtively checking her out as she went


    25. Seated at the back of the restaurant Johan began furtively


    26. ‘See Sandhya,’ said Sathyam as Sandhya and Roopa looked at each furtively, ‘she’s always cut up with me


    27. As Sandhya looked around furtively as they stepped out, Roopa commented, ‘Are you still expecting him!’


    28. The woman’s voice trembled and she furtively wiped a rolling tear


    29. When they knocked at Dalynara's door, however, she appeared wrapped in her robe, her face peeking out of the door, looking furtively down the hall


    30. Two men and a woman who had the same coloring and build as Conrad, Joel, and Kathy, would be seen getting into one of the Garland Crest’s glass-tinted, luxury mini vans, ducking their heads and acting furtively, as if they were trying to make a quick getaway from the building undetected from the press

    31. The man had been wearing a khaki colored, winter overcoat, yet it was a warm clear night with not a trace of rain or even storm clouds in the sky, so why had the man been wearing a heavy coat like that? Nor had Nick been able to get a close look at the man’s face, for he’d furtively kept his face at an angled profile, with a military styled, wide brimmed, combat hat (similar to what soldiers wore in desert warfare) keeping his actual facial features hidden


    32. He saw her furtively wipe the tears away with the back of her hand, and there was something so endearingly lovable about the gesture it made him want to kiss and comfort her


    33. After furtively ascertaining that no one, besides the man standing guard beside the French doors leading into the living room was around, Cyrus crept out of his hiding place, when the guard’s back was to him


    34. The night sky lit up again, and the creature—the centaur—glanced around furtively, a stout figure whose black, rain-soaked flanks gleamed in the sudden glare of the flashing lightning


    35. She furtively glanced up and into each of the three, white trimmed windows, but could not see anything inside


    36. Soames, with his back turned, furtively wiped his


    37. Still these scenes had not left him scathless, and it was a vicar moved to the utmost limits of his capacity in that direction who went into the pulpit that day repeating the question "Who is it?" so insistently, so appealingly, with such searching glances along the rows of faces in the pews, that the congregation, shuffling and uncomfortable, looked furtively at each other with an ever growing suspicion and dislike


    38. The Drong leader furtively glanced at his soldiers


    39. ” Ryan said stil searching furtively


    40. Rather someone who looked extremely nervous and who looked about in all directions furtively

    41. he considered and smiled furtively, one call, one visit and superb acting skills at the Trusts’ office in Chesford “Oh I haven’t seen my sister in years


    42. Riding cautiously by the cage, Renoir glancing furtively at the giant before swiftly looking away


    43. Oak furtively moved around the door and found an area of large tarp covered items that he could slip between to hide and observe the scene


    44. the pine forest where Neil’s mansion was hidden ever so furtively


    45. There were parties where you could dance cheek-to-cheek, and kiss furtively in a dark corner and perhaps fondle the girl a little


    46. Not obviously or aggressively so, though I could not stop looking and admiring her furtively


    47. I have learnt to look at her furtively out of the corner of my eye and pretend indifference


    48. On and off, we made love until the dawn looked in, furtively, dimly, through the openings of the shutters


    49. furtively over the phone; she, in her office and I at home with the servant sweeping the floor nearby


    50. Derrick whacked him, "Shut up for a minute," he hissed, glancing furtively at the door
































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    Synonyms for "furtively"

    furtively on the sly

    "furtively" definitions

    in a furtive manner