surreptitiously

How To Use surreptitiously In A Sentence

• Thornton," Steinmeyer explains, "had sent the message to himself, from Cripple Creek to Colorado Springs," where he surreptitiously lopped off the telltale portion before handing it over to the policeman. Jim Steinmeyer's "The Last Greatest Magician in the World"
• In fact, she swears that she saw the blow-up bra being surreptitiously inflated after a recent dive in a boat full of blokes.
• 'My dear young lady, it is well known that your christening was the work of your aunt, who did it unknown to your parents when she had you in her power, out of pure obstinacy to a church with which she was not in sympathy, taking you surreptitiously, and indefensibly, to the font of the Establishment; so that the rite meant and could mean nothing at all .... A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
• An electrician surreptitiously hooks up our hero to the main power supply.
• Ally surreptitiously guzzles water at every chance to avoid the dreaded dry mouth kiss.
• This data is then surreptitiously transmitted to crooks, allowing their young accomplices to later empty bank accounts.
• On the wharves was the smell of tarred seams and cordage, -- sweltering in the sun; in the counting-rooms the clerks could barely keep the drops of moisture from their faces from falling down to blot their toilsome lines of figures on the faultless pages of the ledgers; on the Common, common men surreptitiously stretched themselves in shady corners on the grass, regardless of the police, until they should be found and ordered off; little babies in second-rate boarding-houses, where their fathers and mothers had to stay for cheapness the summer through wailed the helpless, pitiful cry of a slowly murdered infancy; and out on the blazing thoroughfares where business had to be busy, strong men were dropping down, and reporters were hovering about upon the skirts of little crowds, gathering their items; making The Other Girls
• Third, hypoxia can be induced surreptitiously, obviating behavioral responses at the time where critical measurements are made.
• She surreptitiously sneaks a bite of food.
• When somebody surreptitiously opened the canal - and local police refused to make arrests - federal marshals were called in.