How to Use under-the-table in a Sentence

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• The old days of under-the-table cash payments to high school stars or secret gifts to their parents were over.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
• Garcia transmitted the cash in four installments and charged an under-the-table fee of $50 for each wire.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2025
• The slimy ne’er-do-well Timo (Steven Yeun), who roped Mickey into the loan-shark snafu and had the same idea to run away into space, can’t stop making under-the-table deals.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
• Throughout high school, Ward honed in on dancing, booking under-the-table gigs and teaching classes to earn extra money.
  — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2023
• In contrast, a home office makes the window for such under-the-table information exchanges elusive.
  — Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 18 July 2023
• Fewer than 10% of Syrian adults have work permits, with the rest being limited to informal, under-the-table jobs.
  — Scott McLean, CNN, 24 July 2024
• Transparency is certainly better than the open secret of under-the-table payments.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
• While migrants wait, many rely on public resources or take low-paying and unreliable, under-the-table gigs.
  — Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
• Making tips explicitly tax free will help with this, and will also remove the stigma that has been associated with tips as under-the-table income.
  — Joe Moglia, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• But fast forward a few years those student-athletes no longer worry about being penalized for accepting under-the-table envelopes of cash from university boosters.
  — Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
• Migrant child labor benefits both under-the-table operations and global corporations, the Times found.
  — Hannah Dreier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• Migrant child labor benefits both under-the-table operations and global corporations, The Times found.
  — Photographs Kirsten Luce, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• In 2018, after media accounts revealed one such donor’s under-the-table contributions to an Australian senator—who then provided countersurveillance advice to the Chinese donor—the senator was forced to resign his seat.
  — Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
• In the meantime, many engage in under-the-table, unreliable work.
  — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2025
• The truth is, under the old system, plenty of elite players were there only for the under-the-table cash.
  — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 21 Aug. 2025