furtively

How To Use furtively In A Sentence

• All the while, four-year-old Matthew was bouncing on the couch, furtively strumming the guitar he wasn't supposed to touch and talking incessantly.
• He had a little electric stove in his room at Titchfield that he had bought at the local ironmonger's and had adapted furtively to work from the lighting circuit; it overloaded the circuit, but warmed the room beautifully. In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
• As we rattled in a sort of governess-cart, called sado, up the broad, palm-lined avenue which leads from Boeleleng to Singaradja, the seat of government, three miles away, I caught fleeting glimpses of natives peering at me furtively over the mud walls which surround their kampongs, but the instant they saw that they were observed they disappeared from view. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
• Mrs Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under-lip; Mr Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and, bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush. Our Mutual Friend
• the soldiers were furtively crawling through the night
• With an insincere apology, she shuffled off, furtively glancing over her shoulder to make sure no one had seen her colluding with a stranger.
• Furtively swift as any Thunder Run "crittur," he made for the willows. The Long Roll
• Some stare in open-mouthed curiosity, others dart in and out furtively under the cover of night, she said.
• She eyed it furtively, then sniffed it suspiciously, but finally discovered that it bore some relation to her native "shucks," when she fell to eagerly. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
• Behind me, the wreckage of industry, abandoned factories and cracking docks; and, occasionally, unspeaking people busy furtively near small fires.