Sentence examples for if secretly from inspiring English sources

By the 1990s sous vide was being used, if secretly, in pro kitchens across the world.

Everyone — if secretly — is thinking about their own ascendancy, or overthrow.

Small wonder, then, that Kim Jong-il seems to be universally (if secretly) loathed by North Korea's elites, who blame him for bequeathing a mess to the nation.

All week I watched them pushing away, their pruned heads swollen together into something like anger, making a brief comeback toward the end, as if secretly embalmed.

Such feisty vignettes secured Azinger's status as the Yank every European wanted to see beaten even if, secretly, they admired his ability as a golfer and cussedness as a man.

Plagiarists boldly offered unauthorised reprints of Carroll's works, as if secretly acknowledging that one of the original meanings of plagiarius was someone who kidnapped or seduced another man's child.

As if we secretly want to lose them.

Lofton then spoke as if he secretly loved the attention.

Like everyone else, he applauded the performance loudly but wondered if others secretly shared his guilt.

If they secretly shared their speeding points, you would not think they should go to prison for it.

That might be a liability if we secretly want a new civic daddy, rather than a proven problem-solver.