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How to use stealthy in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Stealthy means characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy. Example: “I can only say I was captivated by the film and its stealthy evocation of pure evil.”

Examples of stealthy by meaning

adjectiveCharacterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.

  • stealthy military manoeuvres

More sentences with stealthy

  • I can only say I was captivated by the film and its stealthy evocation of pure evil.2022 May 26, Peter Bradshaw, “Pacifiction review – trouble in paradise, in apocalyptic Tahitian mystery”, in The Guardian. From the entry pure evil
  • Moments later, the faint aroma of a dopestick filtered down to the stealthy Hawke.2014, Ed Sutter, Assassins. From the entry dopestick
  • Fructose is the Voldemort of the metabolic syndrome pandemic: stealthy, ever-present, and bad for the common good.2013, Robert H. Lustig, Heather Millar, & Cindy Gershen, The Fat Chance Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes Ready in Under 30 Minutes to Help…. From the entry Voldemort
  • Herons hunt by stealth, and the bittern may be the stealthiest of the lot.1988 April 22, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry stealthiest
  • Whispering, almost asnort with stealthy expectation, two of the boys climbed up.1948, Marjorie Holmes, Ten o'clock scholar, page 156. From the entry asnort
  • With stealthy glide he approached the door of his master's room, listened, cautiously peeped in, then entered.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry glide
  • The night is the time of stealthy prowling, of lightning attack, of fear, of death.1911, Charles Livingston Bull, Under the Roof of the Jungle: A Book of Animal Life in the Guiana Wilds, L.C. Page & Company, page 4. From the entry night
  • Why then, one may ask, does stealthy electrotorture appear first in the colonies and foreign wars of democracies and not in the colonies and foreign wars of authoritarian states?2009, Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy, page 194. From the entry electrotorture
  • A stealthy glance below revealed no guard in sight, and so with the quickness and the soundlessness of cats we dropped together into the main cabin of the submarine.1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as…. From the entry soundlessness
  • The Abominable Snowman – existing and not existing, flickering at the edges of blizzards, apelike man or manlike ape, stealthy, elusive, known only through rumours and through its backward-pointing footprints.2003, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Virago Press (2013), page 8. From the entry abominable snowman

Meaning of stealthy

  1. adjective Characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.

Full definition of stealthy

Questions about stealthy in a sentence

How do you use stealthy in a sentence?
Stealthy is used as an adjective. For example: “I can only say I was captivated by the film and its stealthy evocation of pure evil.”
What is a short sentence with stealthy?
“stealthy military manoeuvres”
What does stealthy mean?
Stealthy means characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.

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