Secretly

//ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li//

"Secretly" in a Sentence (12 examples)

He was seen to eat a piece of cake secretly.

He was seen to take out the book secretly.

He entered the garden secretly.

Even during work, I secretly indulge my Internet addiction.

As a disinterested third-party, I can declare that she secretly loves him.

The FBI secretly bugged the mobster's hangout.

Isn't it natural for a young man with a hard to shake reservedness about himself to think that he is secretly the chosen one?

Imogen of the Internet calls people out for openly liking the same fan fiction that she does secretly.

They continued to export goods secretly.

I'm secretly in love with someone else's wife.

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Mary cheated secretly in the test, and never got caught.

Sometimes her prose hyperventilates ("Once, years ago, his and N.'s love for each other had glowed like phosphorescent fire on the surfaces of their bodies"), and she has a weakness for epiphanies ("There was a man, no longer young, though not yet old, who, traveling alone in northern Europe, began to feel that his soul was being drained slowly, almost secretly from him, drop by drop").

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