Sentence examples for discreet call from inspiring English sources

If it is after 10 p.m., a security guard might stop them, leading to an awkward conversation, but a discreet call upstairs usually sets minds at ease.

The ability to step behind a closed door for a small meeting, lunch with colleagues, or a discreet call to a doctor's office will help ensure workers have a place to take conversations that others shouldn't hear.

Roger says he'll make a discreet call and take care of it.

They also say that there is a "discreet call-ahead service" for those who want to come and go "without anyone seeing you").

No wonder Human Rights Watch described the arrests as "jaw-droppingly awful PR" and, doubtless, the London-based PortlactsConmunications, which acts on behalf of the Qatari government, will be addressing that matter in discreet calls to journalists.

The day began under gray skies, but spears of sunlight burnt off the clouds as supporters surged into area surrounding the stadium hours before the 3 p.m. kickoff to soak up the familiar sights and smells of the season: the bellowing cries of fanzine vendors, the more discreet calls of ticket scalpers, the smell of frying onions wafting from the burger vans.

Blinking like bats, they each took a cellular phone underneath different manicured spruce trees on the hotel grounds and made discreet calls home to check on their families, the new false weight of their relationship sending them running to their other obligations.

This can require a discreet phone call alerting one or the other or both — or, at least, careful seating.

One of his trainers does divulge that Ferguson once made a discreet telephone call at half-time, when he had a runner during a match.

When he came to cash a check, there had been a discreet telephone call, to see if he were some kind of sharpie.

We should be thankful that, unlike Spain and Portugal, the big clubs do not have the option of a discreet phone call to an administrator to tell them when they want to play their games.