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    Use "surreptitiously" in a sentence

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    surreptitiously


    1. ’ The gg snuffled at her face, allowing Kara to wipe away the tears surreptitiously


    2. I wait for his instruction, moving my weight from one foot to the other as surreptitiously as I can


    3. picture and that the virus was now safely and surreptitiously


    4. Several of the congregation surreptitiously watch them and whisper – the joy of living in a village! Fortunately, Anna remains totally oblivious to this; she’s so terribly shy that being the centre of attention would be hell for her


    5. Spelman looked at each other surreptitiously, the former, who would not be joining the party for factory reasons, gave the latter a look which said, 'rather you than me


    6. She stole surreptitiously into the


    7. All the while setting out the covered platters slowly and methodically and glancing surreptitiously at Jista's progress at the desk


    8. but willing to surreptitiously and secretly look around for more


    9. Monique was surrounded by a few of father’s associates; one of them still surreptitiously giving her the eye – a man over twice her age who no longer cared for propriety or feared the wrath of her father; the discomfort making her mildly queasy


    10. He was confident, that should they try to kill him, they would both die very quickly, but he hoped he wouldn't be forced to take that course, surreptitiously flexing his claws in readiness

    11. I turned around, surreptitiously studying the slim black woman who had entered the room


    12. (I can visualize our police surreptitiously glancing along our sidewalks at night with tape measures of their own!) Why does it always seem to fall on the shoulders of hard working, over taxed (law-abiding) citizens to defray the costs of profligate spending by our municipalities that, despite increasing revenue, are invariably under-funded


    13. Frazer departed Costa Rica surreptitiously on official assignment before the date of the murder, and the OIJ’s cooperation in not drawing attention to his movements would be appreciated


    14. They had slowly come together in ones and twos, surreptitiously, frightened at possible discovery


    15. Then, while Coughman was practically inside of his opened locker, I watched him surreptitiously pull a clear plastic bag out of the inside pocket of his jean jacket; inside the bag was a small bottle with gold-ish liquid, some of the liquid had leaked out of the bottle and into the bag


    16. While I was on one of my trips, Theodore’s son, John, had dropped by to visit and surreptitiously check out Aspenquid and Mathilde


    17. I thanked him and turned it over, wondering what they would make of the Uighur script, after they surreptitiously opened it


    18. “establish” Christianity by “law?” The Court has even prohibited a moment of silence in schools or other public places, fearful, evidently, that a prayer surreptitiously emanating from the spirit of a devout student might contaminate her neighbor


    19. was trying to surreptitiously take her temperature


    20. Zoe took a drink from the cool glass of lemonade and surreptitiously watched Eva

    21. She watched Michael surreptitiously, trying not to stare, and


    22. The appearance left the corner and sliding surreptitiously in my direction, stood firm next to me


    23. No one was home when Sebastian arrived, so he showered, did his homework, made a bite to eat, did a casual circuit of the garden, surreptitiously working out where a camera must have been to take the photos of him and Guapo beside the pool, noticed from the corner of an eye a sprinkler on edge of the flowerbed that seemed larger than the others, felt the soil nearby, nodded his head as if making a decision, turned on the sprinklers and wandered back, noting with satisfaction that no water spouted from the one he‘d suspected


    24. heels, I surreptitiously checked out anywhere that could hide a camera


    25. mingle with the crowd of curious onlookers, surreptitiously taking photographs


    26. refuse? A crypt door was surreptitiously opened and a couple slipped in, closing


    27. Kim contacted his Bureau chief in Beijing and informed him what had occurred, letting him listen to his conversation with Wu Dawung, which he had surreptitiously recorded


    28. Rory Hamilton gave a grim smile of satisfaction as he gazed upon the fiercely burning vehicle – aided by the fact that the petrol-cap had been surreptitiously removed earlier on – nobody could survive such a conflagration!


    29. He surreptitiously felt of a scar beneath his jupon, and remembered ravens that cawed on the trail of a fugitive; remembered the body of his squire, Arideus, brought back from the border mountains horribly mangled, by a great gray wolf, his terrified soldiers said


    30. In that tiny instant when Jane was out of his sight she deftly snatched the torn paper from the waste basket, put it behind her back and surreptitiously tucked it into the back of her suit trousers, pulling down her jacket to hide it

    31. “The Northwest Coast tribes have some gruesome variations where the original monster, Mosquito Man, thrusts his proboscis into a person's head and sucks their brains out, often so surreptitiously that the people around him don't even notice their companion is dead


    32. I didn’t want to have a heart attack in the middle of the casino—besides, they didn’t have any gurneys surreptitiously hidden behind a corner


    33. that one can influence behavior by surreptitiously appealing to the subconscious


    34. ing shop — was surreptitiously dropped off by a girlfriend and left


    35. Down the street further, he surreptitiously parked his vehicle several houses away from his darkened target


    36. As he passed by, he surreptitiously ran his hand up the front of her thighs, pausing briefly to cup her squish mitten, and then walked on unconcerned, to collect more forms to fill-in


    37. Carla surreptitiously fiddled with the connector to her monitor and attached the capture card


    38. She surreptitiously crossed her


    39. Male eyes watched her surreptitiously from all directions in the Michelin star-rated restaurant of the Four Seasons hotel


    40. The next part of their operation saw them surreptitiously install a Trojan horse programme onto the bank’s computer, which then enabled them to use the machine remotely and at will, without the bank’s knowledge

    41. Instead, again surreptitiously, they introduced a keylogging virus into the system, which automatically recorded every key that was pressed when the system was switched on, and then emailed the results to the team’s own network of machines in Oxford


    42. He had surreptitiously slipped up to his room while everyone


    43. them surreptitiously and made a twirling motion with his finger towards his temple


    44. He kept glancing surreptitiously at the toy box


    45. Which was really why he had already taken two glasses of water, and had surreptitiously rubbed his chest a couple of times


    46. at the office, watching the famed blanket creep surreptitiously over Table Mountain,


    47. surreptitiously turning to a different page if anyone with influence walked by


    48. He could see between the gaps and surreptitiously glanced at


    49. Even before the ink was dry on the deed of Indian partition, Pakistan surreptitiously pressed the tribal Musalman hordes into Kashmir to usurp the Paradise on Earth for itself


    50. As they docked, Krane quickly disembarked and surreptitiously tried to avoid making eye contact with the two other creatures







































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    Synonyms for "surreptitiously"

    sneakily surreptitiously

    "surreptitiously" definitions

    in a surreptitious manner