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Example sentences for "stealthily"

Lexicographically close words:
stealeth; stealing; stealings; steals; stealth; stealths; stealthy; steam; steamboat; steamboating
  1. The land shakes with them, and the slave's dull ear Turns from the rice-swamp stealthily to hear.

  2. She had no sooner moved on again, than she was conscious of the same sound, which was like that of a person tramping stealthily among bushes and brushwood.

  3. Hugh accepted it from his hand, and looking stealthily at his smiling face, drank the contents in silence.

  4. As the main body filed off from this scene of action, and passed down Welbeck Street, they came upon Gashford, who had been a witness of their proceedings, and was walking stealthily along the pavement.

  5. He pointed, as he left her, to the slumbering form, and stealthily withdrawing, made his way into the street.

  6. Silently and stealthily they two went from house to house, fastening each door with the chain which usually hung outside.

  7. Noiselessly turning the knob, he stealthily entered and tiptoed to the closet just in time to catch these words: "Entire system will be tied up.

  8. Stealthily Elmendorf sprang to the landing without, leaned over the balustrade, and bent his ear.

  9. As the fox returns to peer stealthily upon the deadfall that has almost caught him, so the trapline was possessed now of a new thrill for Miki.

  10. He did not follow it up, but circled like a wolf, coming up stealthily and uncertainly until at last he looked out into the little clearing where a new world had come into existence for him.

  11. Stealthily Durant began to take advantage of his opportunity.

  12. Your conversation has done its work," she whispered as I stealthily picked up my hat, and together we stole on tiptoe to the door, which she opened without a sound.

  13. He walked stealthily back and forth, between the garden and the theatre.

  14. They came stealthily and they have all kept as quiet as mice.

  15. These men twice spoke the name of Amelie's father, whereupon Rene stealthily followed the pair.

  16. She visualized the caution with which Granny had slipped from bush to bush, how stealthily she had crept to the gate.

  17. So in the early morning Granny and Rebecca Mary and a very sleepy Joan left the house as stealthily as if they had been robbing Riverside and made their way from one clump of shrubbery to another to the gate.

  18. The creature had not advanced far when her eye fell on the crocodile, towards which she stealthily crept, her soft padded feet making not the slightest noise as they trod the ground.

  19. Concealing themselves, they advanced stealthily towards the combatants, with long knives gleaming in their hands.

  20. Stealthily the prisoner moved to the door, and looked down the corridor dimly lighted by a lamp at the further end.

  21. The lights were out, the doors fastened, but she had means of entrance, and made her way up to her chamber so stealthily that even the great dogs who bayed and kept watch upon the veranda were not disturbed by her tread.

  22. He halted for a moment, then came stealthily sneaking up toward the brush under which his nose told him the rabbits were crouching.

  23. Here they hid awhile, but as there did not seem to be any movement among the citizens, they stealthily passed on, across the bridge.

  24. Stealthily the hunted brothers moved down the stream along the margin of the water, and close up under the overhanging bank.

  25. With a horrid laugh brother Dominique fell upon his face on the ground, like one blasted by a stroke from heaven; and with a vague feeling of terror, I crawled stealthily to my own cell.

  26. I lost no time in informing them of the discovery I had made, and taking my gun, proceeded to regain as quietly and stealthily as possible the spot I had lately quitted.

  27. His prediction was speedily verified, for on reaching the summit of a little hill, up which we had slowly and stealthily proceeded, two small gray objects suddenly struck my eye.

  28. I do not know if he understood me at first, for he gazed half vacantly at my face while I was speaking, and often stealthily peered around to see if others were coming, so that I had to repeat more than once that I was perfectly alone.

  29. From that time Mark Mallard took no open notice of Jimmy Virtue, but nevertheless looked at him stealthily every now and then.

  30. There was no more than a faint rustling sound, as though invisible feet were stealthily flying along the pathway of the upper boughs and through the dim defiles in the dense coverts of oak and beech in the very heart of the woods.

  31. The next moment he was glad he had not disclosed himself, for a crouching figure stealthily followed Annaik.

  32. His gaoler took him by the arm, and stealthily they entered the other room, their moccasined feet making no noise.

  33. Stealthily stealing up, they could see a number of dark figures.

  34. It seems that on this occasion Columba came to Tara to claim in the court of the king that copy of the Psalms which he had stealthily made from the copy which St. Finnian had brought from Rome, and which he very highly prized.

  35. We shall see later on how he copied stealthily Finnian's MS.

  36. His comrades' equivocal allusions puzzled him, though they flattered him like applause, and he stealthily looked in the large mirrors at the new lyres embroidered in gold on the collar of his tunic.

  37. Fearing to reply from his hiding place, the wily lad crawled stealthily from concealment, and wriggled cautiously down the ridge.

  38. Led by Sun Bird, the little company of scouts moved stealthily through the dark.

  39. Through the open door a cool, restful breath stole gently as if nature were again stealthily taking possession of her own.

  40. She saw the hand of the creature's rykor creeping stealthily toward the hilt of its dagger.

  41. But one person understood his movements as he stealthily drew near the sergeant, took his arm, and led him aside.

  42. How stealthily the small stream of water crept on and on, until their first warning was its serpent-like progress past their house.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stealthily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    covert; privately; secrecy; secret; secretly