Example sentences for: covertly

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

  • One would have been the deployment of U.S. military or intelligence personnel, or special strike forces, to Afghanistan itself or nearby-openly, clandestinely (secretly), or covertly (with their connection to the United States hidden).

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

  • Many people who wouldn't dream of seeing Crash derive the very same thrills covertly, from an inexhaustible supply of PG titles ranging from The French Connection to the latest generic Lethal Weapon ; they will, of course, hotly deny any tumescence.

  • 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.)


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