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How to use furtiveness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word furtiveness? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
But if you are a chameleon, you can sneak in and move ahead with the furtiveness required in one-day cricket.
I understand though that there was a certain amount of furtiveness or subterfuge involved in getting this Aboriginal cricket team out of the country to set sail for England.
The second thing was the furtiveness with which my inquiries were met.
He disliked the secret world, with its mixture of paranoia, incompetence and furtiveness.
She hated all the lies, the dishonesty, the furtiveness, but it was the only way of escaping Walter's clutches and a loveless life of imprisonment and restraint.
The reason for the man's haste and furtiveness was that he was taking along the wife of his secretary and leaving his own behind.
At the very least, Zweig's nocturnal wanderings surely account for the nightmarish atmosphere of furtiveness that underlies much of his work.
It makes Assange's furtiveness and his hideout in the Ecuadorean embassy look even more weaselly.
Examples from Classical Literature
The sound of a crackled twig off to the right had come to their ears, and it was a sound that carried the quality of furtiveness.
When he left her her once clear, careless glance had a suggestion of furtiveness in it.
It was the furtiveness of it rather than the fact itself that troubled him.
And there was some haste in his slouching, loose-jointed gait which gave to his journey a suggestion of furtiveness.
He was unshaven, and his eyes shone with the furtiveness of some hunted animal.
She had but little of the curiosity of the flirt, and none of the intrigante's joy in furtiveness.
The mountaineer is, by nature, secretive to furtiveness, and under so outright a questioning the visitor stiffened with affront.
Discretion and furtiveness were paramount, which I explained to the operator.
My grandmother noticed a furtiveness in his manner when he received them.
Ultimately it was his decision, yet the furtiveness left him open to expensive blackmail, as Sheen recognises to his considerable cost.
The furtiveness with which she handles the painting embarrasses everything her father stands for.
He did so more because he wished not to pain her than from furtiveness.
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