How To Use On the sly In A Sentence

  • (She still managed to sneak a slurp or two on the sly. A Daughter In The Loop
  • I got the idea that she didn't want me to keep no flippit nohow, so's I feeded 'im on the sly. The Celebrated Jumping Flippit of Tau-Ceti IV
  • It is very rare for already mated females to copulate on the sly with males who are socially subordinate to their current mates.
  • He smiled and took a sideways look at her on the sly.
  • Like the cheats who work on the sly while raking in handout cash. The Sun
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  • You just disappeared and Eileen told me that you had eloped with a man you'd been seeing on the sly.
  • I also remember that schoolboys would start to spit at the same age as they took to smoking on the sly, just to show what grown-ups and tough guys they were.
  • Boorman was still rehearsing them in semisecrecy, but they were coming on the sly to see Dickey for background on the characters, even voice coaching. Summer of Deliverance
  • When kids who are drinking on the sly do venture out, they often preload first, fueling up on as much alcohol as they can hold before the evening begins so that the buzz lasts as long as possible.
  • Ye've been shamming Abraham in yer watch, an 'sneaked down thaar to hev a pipe on the sly, when ye should hev bin mindin' yer dooty, thet's what's the matter, sirree; but, I'll make ye pay for it, ye skulkin 'rascallion. The Island Treasure
  • The first five tracks sparkle with second-hand guitar lines from all three EPs, but with the welcome break of ‘A Cathedral at Night,’ My Favorite slips you a micky on the sly.
  • Younger and wirier than his charge, talking a mile a minute and singing during his chores, he nonetheless shows a careworn, weary face, and he drinks on the sly.
  • He rebuilds a lab, on the sly, that is humongous, an undertaking requiring great wealth and a greater amount of equipment and manpower. Teenage armor: A review of the new Iron Man cartoon | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • Ye've been shamming Abraham in yer watch, an 'sneaked down thaar to hev a pipe on the sly, when ye should hev bin mindin' yer dooty, thet's what's the matter, sirree; but, I'll make ye pay for it, ye skulkin 'rascallion. The Island Treasure
  • He has to visit them on the sly.
  • Like the cheats who work on the sly while raking in handout cash. The Sun
  • This refusal to take any refreshment seemed to him the most odious hypocrisy; all priests tippled on the sly, and were trying to bring back the days of the tithe. Madame Bovary
  • The pleasant task of helping pod the peas for Sunday lunch while eating the odd one on the sly should be part of childhood.
  • That said, I use the word pioneered rather than invented, because I am virtually positive that other people ran free-to-play w/ virtual asset sales previously, even if it was a hobbyist game admin selling something on the sly to players to make a few bucks. How will "free-to-play" business models affect the gaming landscape in the West?
  • Like the cheats who work on the sly while raking in handout cash. The Sun
  • “The fear of camera-fitted mobile phones which can take pictures of a woman on the sly, is keeping a number of Qatari women away from beauty salons,” the Peninsula On-line reports.” Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Qatari women and camera-fitted mobile phones
  • Sethe made a dress on the sly and Halle hung his hitching rope from a nail on the wall of her cabin.
  • He's been drinking whiskey on the sly for thirty years.

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