How to use "furtive" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "furtive" in popular movie and book plots

  • Later he discovers furtive squatters in his house.  - Eclipse (Banville novel)
  • He slinks around the set, so furtive that a security man demands sight of his pass.  - Crazy Sunday
  • Polly, however, hopes to snare an English duke with whom she once exchanged furtive glances at a London opera house.  - See America First
  • Daigo is furtive about his duties and hides the true nature of the job from Mika.  - Departures (2008 film)
  • Martel, seething with jealousy, screens the videos as the lip-reader narrates the furtive whispers of Lena and Mateo's passionate affair.  - Broken Embraces
  • When it comes to sex, they are furtive and hypocritical - and their erotic tastes are known to be extremely peculiar.  - Coasting (book)
  • A furtive bargain was struck at the gates of Southmarch and the castle was spared, but centuries of enmity will not be so easily appeased.  - Shadowplay (Williams novel)
  • Odile (Azéma), a business executive, is married to weak, furtive Claude (Arditi).  - Same Old Song
  • They carry on a furtive relationship which leaves him torn between the passion, and knowing that he is doing something wrong.  - Carried Away (1996 film)
  • After his wife is kidnapped, a tribal priest named Marapper encourages Complain to join a furtive expedition into the unexplored corridors.  - Non-Stop (novel)
  • This, combined with Castle's furtive methods of attack, has made the Punisher's identity a mystery to the general public.  - The Punisher (1989 film)
  • In the background, two men share a furtive romantic moment outside a room door.  - Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
  • Yet, though the Shepherd leaves in a moment, He returns the same way at the first furtive cry of the forlorn little protagonist.  - Hinds' Feet on High Places
  • Charlie's case officer and furtive lover is Joseph.  - The Little Drummer Girl
  • Jennifer and Avery are drawn together and share a furtive kiss when he tells her that he is aware of Eva and Jud's past.  - Queen Bee (film)
  • Aubrey gains a reputation for lingering in port as he carries on a furtive affair with Diana.  - Post Captain (novel)

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