How to Use clandestine in a Sentence

clandestine

adjective

• I took a clandestine peek at the price tag on the diamond necklace.
• Iran appears to have quietly responded with its own clandestine attacks.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• Still, the three Sun reporters at that clandestine hotel meeting last year sometimes can’t believe everything that has happened since.
  — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
• While taking viewers on a tour of the vehicle and its interior, the clandestine videographer reveals that the gray sports car is one of two examples of the car that have been shipped to the warehouse.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2021
• Until then, the fates of both fishermen and sharks remain a matter of clandestine migrations, unenforced regulations, and taut fishing line.
  — Richard Pallardy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2021
• There were at least six clandestine parties attended mainly by young people visiting from Santiago, the capital.
  — Rafael Romo, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
• The traitor can of course cause all kinds of clandestine havoc here.
  — Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2019
• The race to fill the Hicks void is a clandestine parade of all the worst human impulses.
  — Olivia Nuzzi, Daily Intelligencer, 28 Mar. 2018
• The conditions in the clandestine mining camps are part of the problem.
  — National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2020
• The video sees the two stars at a clandestine perreo party inside a dark building in Madrid.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
• And those unlucky enough to fail to find the clandestine bugs still receive a collectible.
  — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 24 Mar. 2023
• There’s Monica’s, which first opened as a clandestine gay bar in 1980 (the first openly gay club in the city).
  — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2023
• There is even a name for the clandestine cyber-bazaar: probiv.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
• Veracruz has been the scene of some of the largest clandestine burial pits in recent years.
  — FÉlix MÁrquez, Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
• But in the Reagan era, as now, the news was full of undisclosed meetings and clandestine plots to swing elections.
  — Longreads, 20 July 2017
• What a clever and clandestine way to welcome a prospective hire to Chicago!
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• Lee was strangled to death and buried in a clandestine grave in Baltimore’s Leakin Park.
  — al, 15 Sep. 2022
• But many women are too scared to reach out to those groups and opt to obtain clandestine abortions.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• Promptly, the pair is strolling through the metropolis basking in the joys of a clandestine affair that feels just right for the here and now.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• Some in the GOP have called for bombing clandestine drug labs in Mexico.
  — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
• The group had grown since its clandestine days into a key force in Catalan culture.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2021
• Berg led the clandestine life of a James Bond-ian operative during a time of war.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
• Confessions were made of a clandestine massage, a trip to the hairdresser, a covert train journey to the city.
  — Jancee Dunn, New York Times, 21 May 2021
• But separating the two is tricky, beyond the skills of most clandestine chemists.
  — Sam Quinones, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
• Having clandestine agreements would be contrary to the spirit of the game.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 6 Oct. 2024
• Leone was the editor of a clandestine paper and was never home.
  — Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2019
• Will Hurd served as a CIA officer in the clandestine service for nearly a decade.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 May 2023
• Their actions declared war on alumni and were done in a clandestine way.
  — Victor Ashe, National Review, 28 May 2021
• As such, teams have long pursued more clandestine means of sign-stealing.
  — Steven Goldman, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
• In truth, the two sides have been fighting for decades, but the conflict has played out largely under the cover of covert and clandestine operations.
  — Aaron Pilkington, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024