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Six example sentences with furtive, each labelled with its topic.
The camera holds on a furtive glance toward the door, and the audience knows the alibi will collapse.
Movies
The stealth level rewards furtive movement, docking points every time a guard turns toward you or a floorboard creaks.
Gaming
Street photographers learn a furtive way of shooting from the hip, since a raised camera changes every face on the pavement.
Photography
The rookie took a furtive look at the bench after the turnover, hoping the coach had been watching the clock instead.
Basketball
Children who had broken a rule made furtive checks of the doorway, a tell the researchers coded frame by frame.
Psychology
The narrator's furtive visits to the locked study are the novel's first hint that he has already read the will.
Literature
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