This Mr. Hamilton Fynes," he remarked, "seems to have been what you might call a secretive sort of person.
He seems to have been a secretive sort of person," Sir Charles remarked.
Washington was very secretive about the man Fynes' identity.
Being neither secretive nor wanting in courage, she would have much preferred to have explained previous to the expedition that she had felt obliged to negotiate about the carriages, and had already paid for their hire.
I'm convinced I'll hear my secretive pater is a grand seigneur, possibly lounging about Piccadilly at this moment while his son is grilling here!
Contrary to his usual secretive habit, Sir Donald suggests these to Oswald, who in turn comments upon them to Alice and Esther, with all the gravity of original discovery.
His wonder and admiration grew with her frank, dramatic, yet timid recital of tactics employed to elicit incriminating clews from the secretive Laniers.
However, the secretive habit of a lifetime sealed his lips against boastful avowals.
As the intimacy between the two grew closer, Pierre relaxed much of his secretive caution.
All disguises and secretive craft seem void of availing use, subject to such irresponsible, persistent crazes.
It will avail nothing to catechise the secretive Paul, who is garrulous upon irrelevant hallucinations only.
Thus adjured, Dick Bray parted with Oswald Langdon, fully determined to be very secretive about that mysterious drive.
Further investigation of the habits of this not very secretive bird, shows that she first lays her egg on the ground and then carries it in her bill to a neighbouring nest.
There was something hidden behind that look--of late there was something secretive in all Nell Blossom said or did.
Intensely secretive and cautious, he shared his secrets with no man, and revealed just enough of his plans to allure support, and not enough to expose their personal application.
I knew the man so well: he was the most reticent, secretive man I ever saw, or expect to see.
On this Subject Our Planet Is as Secretive as a Woman, and Inquisitive Scientists Can Do Nothing More Than Guess at It.
The earth is almost as secretive on the subject of its age as is a woman who has passed the thirty mark.
Opposite was Stephen Heneage, a man of a different and more secretive type.
Wrayson, however, never struck me as being a particularly secretivesort of chap.
Like all secretive persons, she could be suddenly expansive at times.
Sophia is a very secretive girl, very--but I think I may say I have always had her confidence.
She had not mentioned them, beingsecretive and scarcely anxious for unpleasantness.
He was secretive by nature, and the rigidity of his father's rule had developed this trait in his character.
I've often asked myself why I ever had any use for such a secretive cuss as you," declared young Mr. Gaylord.
I can't go into the reasons as deeply now as I hope to a little later," he had said, his secretive habit holding good to the final fathom of the slipping hawser of events.
I want to tell this thing because it seems to me we are altogether too restrained and secretive about such matters.
A man who was as secretive as Porter probably had confidential sources of information, and it was not safe to tap Porter's wires.
Fenton, on the other hand, was constantly fearful lest his client should undo himself by his secretive methods.
He had troubled much over Porter's secretive ways, and had labored to shatter the dangerous conceit which had gradually grown up in his client.
Because of secretive and subterranean habits, however, its abundance and effects on community associates are largely obscured.
Because of their secretive and subterranean habits most of the frogs are missed by a collector who searches by turning rocks, or trapping with pitfalls.
This frog is secretive and spends most of the time in subterranean shelter, obtaining its food there rather than in the open.
Kind of a secretivewoman anyhow, she was, and besides she's had some very pressing trouble come on her lately.
He is a swift trailer, but not so swift or secretive but some small sailing hawk or lazy crow, perhaps one or two of each, has spied upon him and come drifting down the wind to the killing.
What he finds there is chiefly conjectured, so secretive are the little people of Naboth's field.
Not only was Helen quiet of disposition, but strangely secretive on certain subjects.
Only a few days before the Christmas holidays, something had occurred that emphasized Helen's secretivepeculiarity to such an extent that Marion was considerably provoked and just a little mystified.
Because if you don't, you die," was the quick reply.
Side by side with all this," Sir James continued, "the Czar is trying to evade his promised visit here.
Every human being has his own secretive reaction, his own furtive recoil, from the queer trap we are all in,--his little private method of retaliation.
His travels were none of my business, and I cared not how secretive he might be upon them.
He was one of those people who generally have a desire to talk of themselves and all their affairs, but who can be suddenly very secretive on some particular matter or occasion.
The girl had been secretive about the early activity of hers, though her aunt knew of two or three adventures wanting in nothing save boldness to have put an end to her independence and her prospects:--hence this Laundry business!
They find it difficult to forgive; and trifles offend; and they are unhappily just as secretive as they are sensitive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secretive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
