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Example sentences for "secretively"

Lexicographically close words:
secretin; secreting; secretion; secretions; secretive; secretiveness; secretlie; secretly; secreto; secretory
  1. And always he turned aside from his victories and smiled secretively at her, as if they were two exiles who had returned under false names to the country that had banished them and were earning great honours.

  2. Richard withdrew his eyes from them and looked secretively at Ellen.

  3. Across the street, at another window, the curtain had secretively moved.

  4. The wood was motionless, the boughs dark against a lighter sky; one or two stars pulsed secretively through and above the leafage, for all the summer night they had a cold look, as if they circled in far-off frozen latitudes.

  5. He laughed so loudly that the policeman at Thirty-fourth Street looked self-conscious and felt secretively to find out what was the matter with his uniform.

  6. He departed, after secretively obtaining not one, but two pitchers, in one of which he got a "pint of dark" and in the other a surprise.

  7. Consultation with Max, insidious as the drug-habit, and as secretively employed, was henceforth to count for much in the development of the Constitutional Crisis.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secretively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.