| A burning ember becomes a surreptitious reference to a tense nation teetering on collapse. |
| It's a shield designed to protect contactless smart cards from surreptitious access. |
| After all, if there is no chocolate dessert on hand, it just might lead to surreptitious stealing of the children's chocolate eggs. |
| Camera obscura technology has been used in astronomy to study solar eclipses and in spy work to make surreptitious surveillance cameras. |
| He was quite sure it would be restored that afternoon, he said, with quiet emphasis and a surreptitious glance at his watch. |
| We don't need this surreptitious attempt at re-direction of our considerable traffic. |
