How to Use clandestine in a Sentence

clandestine

adjective
Definition of clandestinenext
Synonyms for clandestinenext
  • I took a clandestine peek at the price tag on the diamond necklace.
  • The traitor can of course cause all kinds of clandestine havoc here.
    — Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The conditions in the clandestine mining camps are part of the problem.
    — National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2020
  • And those unlucky enough to fail to find the clandestine bugs still receive a collectible.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Veracruz has been the scene of some of the largest clandestine burial pits in recent years.
    — FÉlix MÁrquez, Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
  • 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 video sees the two stars at a clandestine perreo party inside a dark building in Madrid.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
  • But many women are too scared to reach out to those groups and opt to obtain clandestine abortions.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Leone was the editor of a clandestine paper and was never home.
    — Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2019
  • There is even a name for the clandestine cyber-bazaar: probiv.
    — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Their actions declared war on alumni and were done in a clandestine way.
    — Victor Ashe, National Review, 28 May 2021
  • What a clever and clandestine way to welcome a prospective hire to Chicago!
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • But separating the two is tricky, beyond the skills of most clandestine chemists.
    — Sam Quinones, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 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
  • But as is often the case in clandestine transactions, cash appears to have been king.
    — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The group had grown since its clandestine days into a key force in Catalan culture.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2021
  • 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
  • As such, teams have long pursued more clandestine means of sign-stealing.
    — Steven Goldman, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Because its work was so clandestine, most people didn’t know about it.
    — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • But a looming global shortage has led to a boom in clandestine sand mining and even outright theft.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
  • But, if this cabal is so clandestine how are its secrets all over the internet?
    — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • But in the Reagan era, as now, the news was full of undisclosed meetings and clandestine plots to swing elections.
    — Longreads, 20 July 2017
  • The fentanyl that is used is almost always produced by a clandestine lab and is of poor quality.
    — Amy Lavalley, Post-Tribune, 1 June 2017
  • Pollan does not present as a clandestine chemist, cooking up designer drugs in a bunker.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 26 July 2021
  • His plan: create a clandestine hit squad to hunt down and kill those responsible.
    — Bruce Desilva, Dallas News, 30 July 2019
  • Health workers and activists warn that the country’s ban forces women to turn to clandestine abortions that put their lives at risk.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The parking lot was nearly empty, and if the encounter felt clandestine, their thoughtfulness was out in the open.
    — Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
  • Herbs flourish in window casings lit up like a clandestine weed stash under grow lights.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Often these methods are clandestine and leak to the public in cryptic fragments.
    — Eitan Fischberger, National Review, 25 July 2021
  • That is, the online document is a clandestine way to share notes, photos, and videos with someone else.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020

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