Example sentences for: discreetly

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

  • This book may be the grandest embodiment of the principle that guided The New Yorker through its glory days under William Shawn: that it is the role of good writing to arrange facts artfully and discreetly, and not much else.

  • Roudinesco alludes to many mistresses, though always discreetly, in the abstract.

  • They were each discussing it--not discreetly but not "publicly"--at a screening for critics of The Talented Mr. Ripley , and I'm certain that they didn't think some smartass like me would report the gist of their conversations to the world.

  • I've tried to discreetly play music, but it doesn't drown him out.

  • Fish (heads discreetly wrapped in paper) are still hung out to dry in the sun.


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