How To Use Stealthy In A Sentence
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I stayed there for three days, until the snow began to melt, dripping in stealthy drops from my little roof.
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They provide cover for a patrol against small arms fire and allow stealthy movement through hostile territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was on his serene, almost stealthy way.
The Sun
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Back in the '70s, I attended college (state school) as a journalism/theater/film major, and since then, I've always kind of harbored a stealthy dream that I could have had a career in journalism.
Will Durst: If I Were a Journalist I Would Pimp-Slap Condoleezza Rice
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One extreme is to take your time to plan, be stealthy and sneak around in the dark to avoid all confrontation.
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The stealthy ship had arrived on the planet several hours before, undetected by the Planetary Defense Grid.
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The stealthy footsteps of a cat crept down the edge of the lane and slunk away behind a stack of barrels.
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He left the path along the water and stole under the trees, along the deep shadow of little plantations, where the boughs of chestnut trees hung their great leaves low, and there was blacker refuge, shaping his course in circles which had for their object a stealthy inspection of chairs side by side, against tree-trunks, of enlaced lovers, who stirred at his approach.
The Man of Property
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We thought we heard the stealthy crunch of a boat beaching at midnight and footsteps climbing the cliff path.
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Guiromélans senses more than hears Balen's stealthy footsteps beneath the tables.
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A young male roadkilled cougar wouldn't neccesrally indicate a local breeding population, but would perhaps suggest that there was a breeding population within say 100 miles or so (young lions are stealthy and can travel far).
Are There Breeding Cougars in Minnesota?
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She looks at me in such a curious, stealthy way.
Emily Fox-Seton
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Out in the forest a steady rustling wind crept through the trees, stalking northwards like a stealthy cat.
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It does not prohibit the use of surprise, ruses, or stealthy tactics to kill enemy personnel.
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It called for individual nerve and daring on that shell-swept, pestled earth, creeping up to new positions or back for water and food by night, lying "doggo" by day and waiting for a counter-attack by the Germans, who were always the losers in this grim, stealthy advance.
My Second Year of the War
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As he made his way with some difficulty through the throng, he was aware that he brushed against a man in a great peruke, who, despite the heat of the house, was wrapped in an old roquelaure tawdrily laced; also that the man was keeping stealthy pace with him, and that when he at last reached his station the cloaked figure fell into place immediately behind him.
Audrey
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Then he identified the noise, know that no harm impended, and resumed his stealthy advance on the Irish terrier.
CHAPTER XV
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The eyes belonged not to a man, but to some rapacious night-bird or to a stealthy hunting animal that keeps itself close to the ground.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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It was a four-days 'hard march to the locality where Captain Buxton counted on finding his victims; and when on the fourth day, rather tired and not particularly enthusiastic, the command bivouacked along the banks of a mountain-torrent, a safe distance from the supposed location of the Indian stronghold, he sent forward his Apache Mojave allies to make a stealthy reconnoissance, feeling confident that soon after nightfall they would return with the intelligence that the enemy were lazily resting in their "rancheria," all unsuspicious of his approach, and that at daybreak he would pounce upon and annihilate them.
Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
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What she had done was to lead a stealthy if not quite bloodless coup.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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It is single-engined, supersonic, and stealthy, meaning it possesses a very small radar signature that makes it hard to detect.
The Nature of Technology
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He planned his behaviour carefully, picturing to himself the stealthy movements, the alert senses that would keep him out of trouble.
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Rana had given me her little pen cam and permission to take stealthy little pictures in and around the funeral.
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They provide cover for a patrol against small arms fire and allow stealthy movement through hostile territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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When people want a nice, inconspicuous, unobstructive car for a stealthy and unobstructive mission, they don't go around borrowing Bentley Continentals.
The Satan Bug
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I heard its stealthy steps in my sleep, and in the dead city under the merciless sky, as I randomly searched for shelter and food.
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Sadly, over a century later, the blood-soaked gains made by America's labor movement are being relentlessly eroded by stealthy corporations and pliant politicians.
Mark Cassello: Labor and Capital in the 21st Century: Legacy of the Haymarket Affair
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It's great for relative stealthy photos Useable ISO3200, large aperature prime lenses, and antishake are great for restaurant pictures or museums without flash.
Technical notes
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What she had done was to lead a stealthy if not quite bloodless coup.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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He uses stealthy means to savagely oppress the common people.
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He noted that Chrome, itself, already does this when a natator uses Chrome in its more stealthy Incognito mode.
Xml's Blinklist.com
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In exchange for their hospitality received from Rei's father, the two women trained Rei in the ninjutsu art of Shinobiyaka Hitokiri, which loosely translates loosely to Stealthy / Secret Assassination.
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It's a stealthy way to light up the face but this is easier with a stick product.
Times, Sunday Times
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The popular image of SEALs is as frogmen, stealthy Navy commandos who operate from the sea.
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Perhaps Hunter is taking revenge in a manner more stealthy than we can possibly comprehend.
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All he would spare was the occasional stealthy glance to ensure that he wasn't going to look like a drenched rat at the end of it all.
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It called for individual nerve and daring on that shell-swept, pestled earth, creeping up to new positions or back for water and food by night, lying "doggo" by day and waiting for a counter-attack by the Germans, who were always the losers in this grim, stealthy advance.
My Second Year of the War
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Seems to us there's some stealthy ninja moves it could look into.
The Sun
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I doubt it, terrorism is all about covert ops, stealthy operations and leaving as little evidence and traces as possible.
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The Grimtotem moved, shadowlike and stealthy, black blots of ink against the moon-silvered night.
The Shattering
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The popular image of SEALs is as frogmen, stealthy Navy commandos who operate from the sea.
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It does not prohibit the use of surprise, ruses, or stealthy tactics to kill enemy personnel.
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It fits easily around one's schedule, and allows the least stealthy among us to enjoy the chase.
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The appeal of the watch to special forces and other stealthy killers is that it dispenses with the need for minute blobs of luminous paint.
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The British are testing an unmanned system that is not just jet-powered and stealthy but also explores new target selection software.
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Improvements include increased payload share of ship displacement, stealthy design, advanced propulsion system and combat systems with modular open architecture.
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Seems to us there's some stealthy ninja moves it could look into.
The Sun
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Over the course of the next hour he watched them disappear and reemerge, light and fleet on the straight-aways, plodding and stealthy on the sharp bends and acclivities.
Heaven Lake
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The Baynunah corvettes will have a stealthy superstructure and a low draught which allows operation in shallow waters.
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His flattened hand drifted in a gesture of evanescence, of stealthy malice.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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It's a stealthy way to light up the face but this is easier with a stick product.
Times, Sunday Times
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Advancing down the kloof with that stealthy gliding motion peculiar to the feline race, the leopard soon came in sight of a fine bushbok, whose sleek sides drew from him an irrepressible snicker of delight.
The Settler and the Savage
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Diabetes is a stealthy beast and can go undiagnosed for ages, so asking your doctor for a simple sugar check is always a good idea.
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True, there was a little stir -- a little abiding of shepherds in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night -- a little buzzing in knots of men waiting to be hired before the daybreak -- a little stealthy movement as of a burglar or two here and there -- an inchoation of life.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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I liked the stealthy hiding part, often choosing the excellent cover provided by a set of prickly Pyracantha bushes in a neighboring yard.
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Just being able to track down the movie despite its stealthy release makes them more nimble-minded than every 26th century clod in the movie, as well as the Fox geniuses so certain that it couldn't be sold....
Work at sunny Kabab Cafe!
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The future of naval warfare lies with small stealthy ships and submarines.
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We hear of ambushes, sudden descents on armies still in marching column, and enemies taken by surprise as a result of sudden forced marches, stealthy changes of position, deceptive signals, and deliberate misinformation.
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Nine missions (plus training) find the stealthy super-spy slinking and scrolling from side to side across the globe.
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By reel three, the film has become a creature feature, as they are picked off one by one by a stealthy hunter.
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Instead of staying stealthy for marketing reasons, though, the Kleiner partners say that the stealthiness is to avoid bad competition, because bad competition can destroy a market.
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It's the end of a stealthy march by Lochaber clansmen through the quiet backwaters of the old district of Badenoch, a journey that took them towards the rich pastures, and rich pickings, of Morayshire.
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stealthy footsteps
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Gathering such information about the terrorists can be daunting, given the desire of most subversives to keep the organization small, stealthy, and secret.
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Without a strong partnership between industry and the warfighter, it would have been impossible to transform a space-age stealthy fighter into the ultimate multi-role, peerless air dominance machine.
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His Catwoman is every inch the stealthy thief as she cuts across the page as lithesome as ever.
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And is it me, or is there something sinister and stealthy about that design?
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He was on his serene, almost stealthy way.
The Sun
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Out of doors something made a circuit of the cabin, like a beast of the night, stealthy footsteps muffled by the snow: _pad -- pad -- pad_ ....
The Bronze Bell
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Russia did the technical aggression by the wire telegraph in Outer Mongolia. It emerged the imperialist characteristics such as stealthy, two-faced and compromise.
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Reaching the front door, she opened it and shut it again hard, using the music of the bells to cover her stealthy return through the maze of Edwardian dining chairs, assorted cabinets, and overmantel mirrors.
Sonnet of the Sphinx
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Aircraft were first built of wood, then metal and now stealthy composites.
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After all, we live in a capitalist country with less and less supervision of stealthy, healthy monopolism.
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I spasmed awake as the team moved in, silent and stealthy as ninjas.
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They provide cover for a patrol against small arms fire and allow stealthy movement through hostile territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a stealthy takeover.
Times, Sunday Times
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They provide cover for a patrol against small arms fire and allow stealthy movement through hostile territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Donald made steadier and stealthier progress than Westwood, at least as stealthy as can be made by a man whose pistachio, raspberry and white outfit made him look like a walking neapolitan ice cream.
Masters 2011: Lee Westwood and Luke Donald in fight to seize the day | Richard Williams
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The engine has transformed the face ofwarfare, from the early days of steam locomotive troop transports tofuture electric or hybrid engines lofting up stealthy airborne robots.
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The whine of the hydraulics had masked her stealthy approach from the lift.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Ironically, stealthy design also makes for a less efficient weapon of war.
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It was a stealthy takeover.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looks at me in such a curious, stealthy way.
Emily Fox-Seton
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Design changes, though small, will bring overall performance gains to the stealthy fighter.
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They've learned that in the stealthy world of computer hacking, staying on your toes and a step ahead of hackers can pay rich rewards.
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With a stealthy leap, Percival broke through the window, shattering pieces of glass over the floor in front of the window, and on the roof right outside it.
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I would creep in and with stealthy footsteps explore the second-floor.
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It looks to be some sort of stealthy, variable-geometry fighter.
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Cæsar, on his perch, apparently wrapped in dreamless slumber, would in reality be watching the stealthy movements of Tim, the cat, who would come scouting through the grass towards the tin of food.
A Little Bush Maid
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I hear his soft footsteps, stealthy like a cat, stepping out of the bathroom, carrying the emptied tin bowl with him.
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Richards shows Brown agonising about how to raise the living standards of the poor – a concern that never animated Tony Blair – by finding stealthy means to fund public services, which, as he reminds us, were close to being in derelict when Labour took power.
Whatever it Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour by Steve Richards
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The oak-panelled door closed almost silently, a stealthy shuzz followed by a click as it sealed the two men in the plush office.
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There have always been stealthy curriers of influence who parasitically attach themselves to powerful figures, sucking their life-bloods, and then by association becoming powerful themselves.
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The eyes belonged not to a man, but to some rapacious night-bird or to a stealthy hunting animal that keeps itself close to the ground.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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But to meet the military's complex requirements, contractors would have to produce a stealthy, supersonic fighter to meet the specific needs of the Air Force, Navy, and Marines.
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The dissolution of the USSR, however, prompted the Air Force to build a small B-2 force and retain untransformed, nonstealthy manned bombers.
