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    furtive example sentences

    furtive


    1. Johnny took a quick, almost furtive sip of the tea and nearly spat it out all over


    2. furtive glances at each other, and melt into the sway


    3. Furtive glances shot in my direction when I appeared in the door-frame


    4. whispers and furtive glances


    5. uncomfortably in his seat and cast a furtive and worried


    6. Jean cast a furtive glance


    7. for that night! Men sat alone in corners, casting furtive


    8. furtive glances at the other in the hope that they were


    9. toward Nerissa, there was something furtive about his gait


    10. He cried out and seized her hips with his hands and began a quick, furtive fucking movement against her butt

    11. There sometimes was the occasional smile from a girl after a furtive glance from him when he then recoiled with embarrassment


    12. Those that were out and about looked furtive and haunted


    13. washed over the cabin and fingered the eaves, and brushed furtive hands


    14. His movements had become short, furtive, the penned-in actions of a caged rat


    15. He gave a furtive look back into the room, and a guilty start at the same time


    16. The kid’s shoulders slumped, and there was that furtive cowering impression again


    17. Zoran had never seen this kind of behavior in all of their life together, a near panic hid within his furtive glances


    18. Peter, Drew, and Molly cast furtive looks in our direction and then pull their heads together, whispering


    19. As Taser shot by, the retired professor muttered something and made a furtive lurch for him and the dog crossed over


    20. I noticed no one inquired about our lack of family, or even gave Carlotta furtive accusing looks

    21. If talking was out, still, furtive signaling could be done where a point of interest piqued their curiosity


    22. As he stood there, his back to the Madonna statue, a furtive movement, one he had been looking for, caught his eye


    23. They saw furtive movement by an eight-foot mausoleum where there shouldn't have been any


    24. If talking was out, still, furtive signaling could be done where a point of interest piqued their


    25. midafternoon work, caste only a quick furtive glance in their direction as the two entered


    26. eye things with furtive, sidelong glances


    27. She was aware of the furtive glances and some openly hostile glares she was getting from the villagers


    28. casting furtive glances toward the young woman who looked more


    29. And as Severa seemed to read between the closed lines in my face my clandestine protest, then, more vigorously, she hold in her sermon and I had to listen her assertive ideological approaches for hours until, at the end, my furtive protest, already silenced by the weight of such conviction, fell exhausted in the crate of the not pronounced words


    30. something furtive about him but I couldn’t put a finger on it

    31. How is it going with Ruth?” Chris felt awkward, furtive even


    32. She wondered idly what furtive, dark feet had glided over those flaming floors in past centuries, how many deeds of cruelty and mystery those winking ceiling-gems had blazed down upon


    33. Yet he could have sworn that he had heard the furtive pad of a foot somewhere down it


    34. Orastes cast a furtive glance at his companions, who stood staring in morbid fascination at their strange guest


    35. 'Did you hear it? A furtive step!'


    36. That furtive, bent figure, then, had been no jailer seeing that the bolts were in place


    37. He lashed out with his heels at a slinking shadow that ducked and bobbed about him—and then about Conan other shadows moved: gray, furtive shadows that closed in on all sides


    38. The king read meaning in Amalric's furtive glance; let the wizard use his arts to help them defeat their most dangerous enemy


    39. His two familiars, silent, hairy, furtive and dark, were with him, and they bore a young Aquilonian girl, bound hand and foot


    40. Inspired by the things he had seen on his furtive visits to the French matrons, Aureliano Segundo bought Petra Cotes a bed with an archiepiscopal canopy, put velvet curtains on the windows, and covered the ceiling and the walls of the bedroom with large rock-crystal mirrors

    41. The three had looked nervous and furtive, seldom engaging in conversation


    42. A furtive glance over her shoulder at the door and quickly around the room lulled her suspicion


    43. The bequests of wills have been the pole star around which a great deal of mystery fiction has been written where furtive and anxious relatives wait around a long imposing table to hear what is to become of the family fortune and thus; what is to 58


    44. behind her, her posture furtive, stooped < guilty


    45. His bright lively eyes, not furtive or secretive, portrayed intelligence


    46. around through the cottages, trying not to look furtive as he strolled past windows and


    47. opened her mouth to call out and shut it again, unwilling to disturb the dark, furtive


    48. He was a man who seemed always to be in control of his tunnelled vision as his furtive lead coloured eyes flashed across his chosen adversaries with little movement of his head


    49. snuck furtive glances at her while she ate the pretzels, the


    50. gave a furtive glance towards the man's hand and noticed














































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    Synonyms for "furtive"

    backstair backstairs furtive sneak sneaky stealthy surreptitious sly evasive clandestine elusive insidious secret underhand

    "furtive" definitions

    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed


    secret and sly or sordid