Sentence examples for were clandestine from inspiring English sources

It was 1993, and to avoid detection, meetings were clandestine.

There were clandestine reporter meetings in Washington, Munich, and London.

There were no trick bookcases or trap doors, but, yes, there were clandestine rooms, accessible with different buttons.

There were clandestine lease-back arrangements, phony mortgages on nonexistent fertilizer storage tanks, illegal transfers of federal-compensation rights, kickbacks for bankers and bribes for Washington.

"There could have been X persons whom we don't know about, who were inside, who were clandestine" passengers, Franco Gabrielli, the national civil protection official in charge of the rescue effort, told reporters at a briefing on Giglio Island.

There were an estimated fifty-one thousand five hundred abortions in Senegal in 2012, and "virtually all of these procedures were clandestine and unsafe," according to the Guttmacher Institute.

"Firstly because it was clandestine.

We oblige them to be clandestine.

"They would no longer be clandestine".

Still, homosexual behavior has always been clandestine.

He has not exactly been clandestine about it.