furtively

How To Use furtively In A Sentence

• All the while, four-year-old Matthew was bouncing on the couch, furtively strumming the guitar he wasn't supposed to touch and talking incessantly.
• Psst! Come over here!" one youth hissed furtively.
• Shortly after my wife left for her evening walk, Zachery sidled up to me furtively.
• People slipped by silently, furtively, like ghosts -- white-faced women carrying infants in their arms; fathers leading children by the hand; singly, and in couples, and in families-all fleeing out of the city of death. Page 7
• He watched a lizard scuttle furtively along the join between wall and ceiling, and disappear into a crevice.
• But the tugging tides of conservatism outlast most swells of enthusiasm and a series of setbacks conspired to drive London's orchestras furtively back into their shells, like Galapagos tortoises in a hurricane.
• And with all attention directed towards the death-struggle just up the road, no one was paying the least heed to the big Kabuli badmash scratching himself furtively outside the Commander-in-Chief's funkhole. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
• He had a little electric stove in his room at Titchfield that he had bought at the local ironmonger's and had adapted furtively to work from the lighting circuit; it overloaded the circuit, but warmed the room beautifully. In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
• A second-rate novelist and a furtively fabricating social commentator, he was homophobic, anti-feminist, unsociable, anti-intellectual, authoritarian and latently violent.
• She wiped at it furtively, casting a baleful glance around to see if anyone noticed.