Example sentences for: furtive

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

  • (In a furtive sort of way.)

  • Baker's pedophile is so furtive that he's almost immobile, but we register the darting eyes under the bland, Mr. Rodgers-like façade, and as he waits for a little boy to eat a drugged tuna sandwich, we hold our breaths the way we did in Psycho when Norman Bates watched the car with the body of Marian Crane almost not sink into the swamp.

  • In The Luck of the Bodkins , P.G. Wodehouse remarked on the ...look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French....

  • With his susceptibility to ridicule and parody, his air of furtive portentousness, his apocalyptic Manichaean vision of purity overtaken by disease, his dazzling displays of the uncanny intuitive skills that sometimes accompany obsession, he was a pulp-fiction Dostoyevsky, an author he admired above all others.

  • To put in perspective the conspiratorial inferences that Estrich strains to draw from seeing me with Starr deputy Jackie Bennett at the Jefferson Hotel bar--a block or so from the Washington Post , where I always go when I'm looking for a secure locale in which to do furtive things--perhaps Estrich should know that I also had some beers recently with a member of the Clinton defense team.


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