Example sentences
Although the cardinal can be secretive and remain hidden in thickets, males usually sing from exposed perches.
The idea that secretive foreign governments are up to no good exerts a powerful hold on the collective imagination.
Others are rare, secretive, or appear only at night.
They have a somewhat unusual one-page website, which is quite secretive and defensive.
The secretive and often haphazard experiments were supposed to tap into the transmutations that in nature took thousands of years.
In the meantime, this defense is as pitiful as the ever-changing stories and deceptions fed to us by this secretive dynasty.
Clouded leopards are so secretive that their current range can only be guessed at and population estimates vary widely.
Guantanamo prisoners tell their stories in secretive tribunals.
Of course, it may simply not be the sort of news the nation's secretive leaders are keen to disseminate.
Adults are slow moving and secretive and are occasionally found aboveground under logs and in other damp hiding places.