How to Use furtive in a Sentence

furtive

adjective

• We exchanged furtive smiles across the table.
• He cast a furtive glance in our direction.
• Silence and furtive glances fill the pair’s Zoom screen.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2021
• As Pai spoke, there was furtive commotion in the back of the room.
  — Andrew Rice, WIRED, 16 May 2018
• Word of the feline's furtive feat spread quickly among the guests.
  — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
• To our right, a furtive squirrel buried something in the dirt and dashed off.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• Thanks to Amazon, my furtive jaunts to the makeup floor are over.
  — Sean Hotchkiss, GQ, 1 Oct. 2017
• Many try to hide their surprise, but their furtive glances say it all.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Those days of furtive glances of my people and others are over.
  — Walter Mosley, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
• Two freshman boys, awkward fawns, peered, eyes wide and furtive, at the seniors, the coach, the girls.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
• The furtive glance men make at the women's volleyball on the bar's TV up over there.
  — Esquire, 3 Aug. 2012
• Still, customers delight in the furtive act of filching.
  — Erin Ailworth, WSJ, 14 July 2017
• But Duch had a retort for the furtive Brother Number Two.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
• There was a time when the clues were laid out in plain sight: The unexpected dress-up day, the furtive phone calls in the stairwell.
  — Robert Granader, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• What’s missing this time around is the furtive hush that once came with owning a knockoff.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• A half-dressed contractor took furtive looks at my neck.
  — Sandra Sidi, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2019
• At home with the hot-tempered, whip-smart Lucy and the furtive Cuban dynamo Desi, the drama comes spilling forth.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2021
• They're also both tucked away in furtive, but gorgeous, canyons.
  — Adam Lapetina, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2024
• The year was 2001, and Katie Holmes—a classic beauty cast for her sad, furtive eyes—was in her Joey Potter era.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 23 Jan. 2023
• This was before locking gas caps and flaps, and midnight rustlers put siphons to furtive use.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• The rest of the planes flew a furtive L-shape before returning, not even circling the small island.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2021
• The quality is low but in a way that adds to the furtive, legally dicey energy of Anger’s work.
  — Vulture, 24 May 2023
• That’s why David looks so furtive — because he wasn’t supposed to be doing that.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
• Things seem a bit dark — and there’s a furtive vibe, as if the Poolers have guerrilla-seized a corner of an Ikea.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2021
• The furtive nature of the internet is rife with cloak-and-dagger attacks.
  — Yec, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• Hell-o, furtive and weirdly lit hookups are half the fun of reality TV!
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 June 2021
• But as fears peak, a circle of furtive sellers lurk online, waiting to make a quick buck.
  — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2020
• Philyaw is a voyeur of a kind, training her gaze on the furtive activities of Black women.
  — The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• Until now, homosexuality in Maestro has played out in foot rubs, furtive glances, and a single kiss.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
• The two were firm friends and college bandmates, but their romantic relationship was a recent, furtive development, kept hidden from their peers and from Diddi’s long-distance girlfriend Klara (Katla Njálsdóttir).
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 May 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024