Example sentences for: clandestine

How can you use “clandestine” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With budgets for the CIA shrinking after the end of the Cold War, it was not surprising that, with some notable exceptions, new hires in the Clandestine Service tended to have qualifications similar to those of serving officers: that is, they were suited for traditional agent recruitment or for exploiting liaison relationships with foreign services but were not equipped to seek or use assets inside the terrorist network.

  • This was in the French concession, and when the French police learned of the clandestine meeting, they raided the two-story corner house.

  • Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the descent into anarchy of much of the former Soviet sturgeon fishery, the leaders of the free world have also become the primary market for inedible caviar processed from sturgeon caught by Russian and Kazakh poachers and clumsily salted in clandestine plants by shady post-Soviet capitalists.

  • The Mafia (Arabic for "refuge"), also called la cosa nostra ("our thing"), began as a clandestine partisan band in 9 th century Sicily , combating a series of foreign invasions.

  • The CIA should retain responsibility for the direction and execution of clandestine and covert operations, as assigned by the relevant national intelligence center and authorized by the National Intelligence Director and the president.


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