Furtive Sentence Examples

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  • The records showed furtive criminal activity.

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  • She gave a furtive look at the deserted shops on the opposite side of the road.

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  • He watched her furtive glances, waiting for the signal to approach.

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  • Presently the boy began to steal furtive glances at the girl.

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  • At social gatherings she's always lurking on the edge of the proceedings looking slightly furtive.

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  • I was sure she was searching for information on Julie O'Malley, in spite of Martha's objections as she gave furtive glances toward her coworker's office.

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  • Our first task as practitioners is to document what goes on in this very furtive field.

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  • In a long gloomy corridor the Vixen had become suddenly furtive, looking all around.

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  • In connexion with this work it must be remembered that Vambery could write down but a few furtive notes while with the dervishes, and dared not take a single sketch; but the weird scenes, with their misery and suffering, were so strongly impressed on his memory that his, book is convincing by its simplicity, directness and evidence of heroic endurance.

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  • This blatancy factor, embedded in UFO waves, alternates with periods in which UFO behavior seems more subtle, even furtive.

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