Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for go stealthily

go stealthily

Discover More

Example Sentences

Mr. Ludsbury loomed on like a high-masted clipper ship in this rocking passage, and I tried to go stealthily by him on my watery, squeaking sneakers.

But lifestyle is a more sinister threat, another type of mortal hazard with slower effects that go stealthily into the blood one cancerous bacon sandwich or poisonous drink at a time, potential killers by degrees that might catch up with us later in life, as something surely will.

From Slate

On the other hand, you see a man go stealthily up to another, knock him down with a blow, take the money out of his purse and carry it away to his house to buy bread for his children.

But rather than be advised to do that which they were planning to do already, the most loyal of daughters will resort to clandestine measures, and go stealthily with the ice-pick as with a poniard beneath a cloak.

Both girls watched her carefully; and directly, as 44 the crowd about her became more dense, they saw her hand go stealthily forth and take several small bolts of the high-priced material.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement