How to Use clandestine in a Sentence

clandestine

adjective

• 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 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
• For Fawzi, the trip to identify his brother’s body marked the end of a clandestine life.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Many of those missing are buried in clandestine graves all across the country.
  — Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The song has might just be the Latin song of summer, due to the catchy rhythm and emotional lyrics describing the passion in a clandestine love.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 8 June 2018
• Having clandestine agreements would be contrary to the spirit of the game.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 6 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Their actions declared war on alumni and were done in a clandestine way.
  — Victor Ashe, National Review, 28 May 2021
• As such, teams have long pursued more clandestine means of sign-stealing.
  — Steven Goldman, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
• But as is often the case in clandestine transactions, cash appears to have been king.
  — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2022
• Director Jeremy Workman and editor Paul Murphy knew there was more nuance to the story than a clandestine performance piece, though.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2025
• Those clandestine, rural production sites were often bare-bones, improvised labs covered with tree branches and tarpaulins.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2025