Example sentences for: discreetly

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

  • Andrew Ferguson of Time argues that since the voters didn't care about Flowers, "an implicit bargain was struck," which held that Clinton would only screw around with people "roughly his own age," and do it discreetly.

  • 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.

  • The paintings are hidden down discreetly marked passageways in darkened galleries.

  • Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid "another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced."

  • Common usage once allowed hat makers to find markets for many heterogeneous styles, for much discreetly suggestive fantasy in shape and trim.


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