Sample Sentences for
clandestine
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  • I'm thinking about Plutarch showing off his pretty, one-of-a-kind watch to me. There was something strange about it. Almost clandestine.  (source)
    clandestine = secret (with a hidden objective)
  • we've extracted them all from the clandestine archives,  (source)
    clandestine = hidden
  • Two days after our manifesto a "clandestine" radio started beaming to Terra.  (source)
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  • 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.  (source)
    clandestine = secret
  • I never yet encountered the mere mathematician ... who did not clandestinely hold it as a point of his faith that...  (source)
    clandestinely = secretly
  • that to cut me off from all natural and unconstrained relations with the rest of my fellow creatures would narrow and warp me if I submitted to it, and, if not, would bring me under the curse of clandestinity;†  (source)
  • Comrade Mundt made a clandestine journey to Finland--once more allegedly in the interests of the Abteilung.  (source)
    clandestine = done with hidden aims
  • There were also whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there.†  (source)
  • Or union, without witness—secret— Clandestine—can be easily dissolved If we survive.  (source)
    Clandestine = secret
  • If it had been Sid, she would have had no misgivings to alloy her delight; but since it was Tom, she watched the bottle clandestinely.†  (source)
  • In a secret place inside his cell, Harris stored the tools of his clandestine translating trade.†  (source)
  • I have to meet tomorrow night, clandestinely, with the Glatun.†  (source)
  • He could only hope that Clara and his father-in-law had seen nothing of his clandestine activities.†  (source)
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