cloak-and-dagger

Example Sentences

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This time, however, President Santiago Peña Palacios will save Lai’s team the trouble of logistical cloak-and-dagger.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

It’s a pale substitute for the delicious tension inherent to deadly cloak-and-dagger exploits.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025

It involved allegations of financial impropriety at the top of the Vatican, cloak-and-dagger activity of the kind that has often characterised the secretive world of the Holy See.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023

But maintaining that electrical undercurrent in person was critical; for all the show’s cloak-and-dagger thrills, their characters’ relationship is the beating pulse of the series.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2023

We played a cloak-and-dagger game, passing notes in books and such.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals