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Six example sentences with surreptitious, each labelled with its topic.
He took a surreptitious shot from the hip, camera at his side, so the vendors would keep working naturally.
Photography
A surreptitious route past the guards exists, and speedrunners use it to skip the entire fortress in ninety seconds.
Gaming
Her surreptitious glance at the clock told the whole table that the meeting had already run twenty minutes long.
Business
The pastry chef caught her apprentice taking a surreptitious taste from the bowl and handed him a clean spoon instead.
Cooking
Defenders in that era used a surreptitious tug on the jersey that referees rarely saw and shooters always felt.
Basketball
Monks made surreptitious copies of banned texts, working by candlelight after the abbot had retired for the night.
History
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