How to Use under-the-table in a Sentence

under-the-table

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• Throughout high school, Ward honed in on dancing, booking under-the-table gigs and teaching classes to earn extra money.
  — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2023
• In contrast, a home office makes the window for such under-the-table information exchanges elusive.
  — Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 18 July 2023
• Transparency is certainly better than the open secret of under-the-table payments.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
• While migrants wait, many rely on public resources or take low-paying and unreliable, under-the-table gigs.
  — Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
• Migrant child labor benefits both under-the-table operations and global corporations, the Times found.
  — Hannah Dreier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• Migrant child labor benefits both under-the-table operations and global corporations, The Times found.
  — Photographs Kirsten Luce, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• In 2018, after media accounts revealed one such donor’s under-the-table contributions to an Australian senator—who then provided countersurveillance advice to the Chinese donor—the senator was forced to resign his seat.
  — Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
• The most common job for these children is under-the-table work in roofing and construction, according to teachers, social workers, labor organizers and federal investigators.
  — Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023