Example sentences for: covertly

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

  • The Waxman model, deployed when he chaired the health subcommittee of Energy and Commerce, is administrative liberalism: Try to accomplish the same social goals covertly through regulation and mandates.

  • (And keep in mind that Tripp was covertly trying to keep the conversation going and to steer it in a certain direction.)

  • From his point of view, once the United States made the commitment to arm the Northern Alliance, even covertly, it was taking action to initiate regime change, and it should give those opponents the strength to achieve complete victory.

  • Girls, officially forbidden to attend school, are often covertly educated at home by their parents.

  • Bobby Ray Inman, and others--were more concerned with the world finding out that America was arming Iraq at that time, than they were about covertly violating their information-sharing agreement with Israel.


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