Sample sentences for CLANDESTINE

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Definition

secret; or conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

clandestine = secret or hidden

or:

done with or marked by hidden aims or methods

a clandestine interview in the back kitchen
Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
a clandestine radio
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

clandestine = secret or hidden

Or union, without witness—secret— Clandestine—can be easily dissolved If we survive.
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac

clandestine = secret

Two days after our manifesto a "clandestine" radio started beaming to Terra.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

clandestine = hidden

Comrade Mundt made a clandestine journey to Finland—once more allegedly in the interests of the Abteilung.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

clandestine = done with hidden aims

I never yet encountered the mere mathematician ... who did not clandestinely hold it as a point of his faith that...
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter

clandestinely = secretly

we've extracted them all from the clandestine archives,
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

clandestine = hidden

I'm thinking about Plutarch showing off his pretty, one-of-a-kind watch to me. There was something strange about it. Almost clandestine.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

clandestine = secret (with a hidden objective)

The school itself was a secret place; while the authorities allowed the refugees to live citizenless in the camps, they forbade them to conduct schools, making education clandestine, carried out under guard.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death

clandestine = secret

What's a clandestine radio when there are already clandestine Jews and clandestine money?
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

clandestine = secret or hidden

What's a clandestine radio when there are already clandestine Jews and clandestine money?
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

clandestine = secret or hidden

Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire.
Austen, Jane -- Northanger Abbey
Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
You say you were Mrs de Winter's prospective husband, and that you held clandestine meetings with her in that cottage on the beach.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
He suggested to Rieux that he should avail himself of this clandestine channel, and Rieux agreed to do so.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
Kate would have loved to sneak down to the culvert again, but this was not a clandestine operation.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
More than once, Laila had wondered what the Taliban would do about Kaka Zaman's clandestine lessons if they found out.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
I showed Nathan the next morning, the two of us stooping furtively over our coffees in the kitchen as if we were doing something properly clandestine.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
Most of the remaining 35,000—clandestine denizens of the so-called interghetto—dwelt in despair amid the ruins like hunted animals.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

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