Sentence examples for functioning covertly from inspiring English sources

"You can live a second life under your first one," the story begins, "something functioning covertly like a subway beneath a city, a disease inside the flesh.

She hid bottles of alcohol, tried to stop Ted from going out alone to social functions, covertly placed a tracking app on his cell phone, plead with him to get help, launched long-term, punishing silence campaigns, engaged in all-out verbal warfare, saying things she could never take back, and often in earshot of their kids.

Mr. DeLorean's team had to work covertly.

Some three months later, in September 1940, they returned to work covertly in unoccupied southern, Vichy France.

Much of the money is sent covertly to churches and voluntary groups in poor countries and failed states without functioning banking systems.

It is well known that motor and proprioceptive signals preponderantly function in the absence of awareness and might thus covertly affect memory strength [37].

Shadow work is just covertly added to our daily duties.

"Some of this data is publicly available, some of it is purchased and some of it is acquired covertly in accordance with SIS statutory functions," according to an MI6 note.

As he confesses from time to time, a good deal of the book appears to have been written on the notes function of his phone, furtively concealed in his sleeping bag, or covertly accessed.

It's covertly educational.

He laughed quickly, covertly.