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.
  • Nearly three thousand clandestine graves have been discovered in the past five years alone.
    — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Others resort to clandestine abortions, a pervasive and often unsafe practice across the rest of the region.
    — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Because of its clandestine features, Snapchat in particular is an ideal platform for dealers to connect with and sell drugs to teens and young kids.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 June 2024
  • For millennials, the slim tube was a staple in our mother's makeup bags and a clandestine companion for school dances and graduations.
    — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Sauer, the undersecretary of state, said Finland is watching for hybrid or clandestine attacks.
    — Emily Rauhala, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2022
  • In Hawaii, trainees learn clandestine amphibious and jungle operations.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The kind of underground activities that thrived on being semi-clandestine, the scenes and milieus that withered if exposed to the light, are now quickly found and commodified.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • The information, Durham says, was taken out of context and distorted to suggest that Trump might be a clandestine agent of Vladimir Putin’s regime.
    — The Editors, National Review, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The traitor can of course cause all kinds of clandestine havoc here.
    — Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2019
  • 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 conditions in the clandestine mining camps are part of the problem.
    — National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The video sees the two stars at a clandestine perreo party inside a dark building in Madrid.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
  • And those unlucky enough to fail to find the clandestine bugs still receive a collectible.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 24 Mar. 2023
  • There’s Monica’s, which first opened as a clandestine gay bar in 1980 (the first openly gay club in the city).
    — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2023
  • There is even a name for the clandestine cyber-bazaar: probiv.
    — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Veracruz has been the scene of some of the largest clandestine burial pits in recent years.
    — FÉlix MÁrquez, Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
  • But in the Reagan era, as now, the news was full of undisclosed meetings and clandestine plots to swing elections.
    — Longreads, 20 July 2017
  • What a clever and clandestine way to welcome a prospective hire to Chicago!
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Lee was strangled to death and buried in a clandestine grave in Baltimore’s Leakin Park.
    — al, 15 Sep. 2022
  • But many women are too scared to reach out to those groups and opt to obtain clandestine abortions.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 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
  • Some in the GOP have called for bombing clandestine drug labs in Mexico.
    — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
  • The group had grown since its clandestine days into a key force in Catalan culture.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2021
  • Berg led the clandestine life of a James Bond-ian operative during a time of war.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
  • 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
  • But separating the two is tricky, beyond the skills of most clandestine chemists.
    — Sam Quinones, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Leone was the editor of a clandestine paper and was never home.
    — Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Will Hurd served as a CIA officer in the clandestine service for nearly a decade.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 May 2023
  • Woods where Billy claimed monsters roamed and where a mysterious institute does clandestine research on a crumbling estate.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 June 2024

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