How To Use Furtively In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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the soldiers were furtively crawling through the night
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With an insincere apology, she shuffled off, furtively glancing over her shoulder to make sure no one had seen her colluding with a stranger.
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Furtively swift as any Thunder Run "crittur," he made for the willows.
The Long Roll
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Some stare in open-mouthed curiosity, others dart in and out furtively under the cover of night, she said.
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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
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Behind me, the wreckage of industry, abandoned factories and cracking docks; and, occasionally, unspeaking people busy furtively near small fires.
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A semblance of normalcy returned to the retirement community as the sounds of classical music, current technopop, sports, soap operas, and the occasional furtively tuned-in erotic movie resonated contentedly from apartment vid speakers.
Codgerspace
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Every time he halted, the better to trim some detail of the load, or puffingly to mop the greasy flow of perspiration, he furtively surveyed all the corners of the horizon and scrutinized the edges of the wood.
Under Fire: the story of a squad
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For the reader who doesn't share Harrison's fascination with physical extremity, though, the journey can seem less sensuous or revelatory than furtively pornographic.
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The narrator paused and furtively surveyed the jestress.
Under the Rose
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Barons and lords glanced furtively at each other from down the table, ladies and nobles picked disinterestedly at their food as if suspecting it had been poisoned.
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It moves forward as furtively as a guerilla able to walk jungle paths blindfold.
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Psst! Come over here!" one youth hissed furtively.
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Simon gnawed furtively at his onion.
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Other eyes regarded him furtively, for this was a violation of the rules.
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At the same time, the card cheat is glancing furtively around to make sure no one is watching while he pulls an extra ace of clubs from his belt.
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A figure emerged from the open door and moved along the alley, not furtively, but with a natural noiselessness like that of a jungle beast.
The Bloody Crown of Conan
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My friend was having problems of her own, every few moments ducking her head to furtively expunge small pieces of gristle into her napkin.
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To look or peer furtively, as from a place of concealment.
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She wiped at it furtively, casting a baleful glance around to see if anyone noticed.
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A second-rate novelist and a furtively fabricating social commentator, he was homophobic, anti-feminist, unsociable, anti-intellectual, authoritarian and latently violent.
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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
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And with all attention directed towards the death-struggle just up the road, no one was paying the least heed to the big Kabuli badmash scratching himself furtively outside the Commander-in-Chief's funkhole.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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But the tugging tides of conservatism outlast most swells of enthusiasm and a series of setbacks conspired to drive London's orchestras furtively back into their shells, like Galapagos tortoises in a hurricane.
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He watched a lizard scuttle furtively along the join between wall and ceiling, and disappear into a crevice.
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People slipped by silently, furtively, like ghosts -- white-faced women carrying infants in their arms; fathers leading children by the hand; singly, and in couples, and in families-all fleeing out of the city of death.
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Shortly after my wife left for her evening walk, Zachery sidled up to me furtively.