Example sentences for: discreet

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

  • The church of the Gesù, severe and relatively discreet on its own square west of the Piazza Venezia, was a major element in the Jesuits’ Counter-Reformation campaign.

  • Previous mass extinctions were not so bashful, so discreet.

  • In fact, the unreliable gossip they sometimes pass on makes the notorious Matt Drudge look discreet.

  • The WP goes bottom front with a dispatch about how the batch of appropriations bills currently on Congress' plate are salted with discreet little money plums for business: for auto companies, defense contractors, utilities, agribusiness, shipbuilders, chemical companies, and even an ammunition manufacturer.

  • Could it possibly be that bigoted commanders, who hate the idea that they might have to tolerate discreet homosexuals in the ranks, now try to flush them out early and fast by massive amounts of intimidation?


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