Example sentences for: clandestine

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

  • In a draft letter (released at a congressional hearing yesterday) to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., FBI Director Louis Freeh wrote that the clemency would "return committed, experienced, sophisticated and hardened terrorists to the clandestine movement" for Puerto Rican independence.

  • The NYT runs a front-page takeout on the career of the Cuban exiles' longtime top clandestine operative that jumps inside to a two-page full spread complete with pictures and time-line.

  • The nadir for the Clandestine Service was in 1995, when only 25 trainees became new officers.

  • Attacking the funds of an institution, even the Taliban, was easier than finding and seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda.

  • 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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