How to Use closeted in a Sentence

closeted

adjective

• In the midst of all of this, there was no hint that Weaver was a closeted gay man.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2021
• For a closeted kid in the '90s, AIM was like a crawlspace from your home into a gay bar.
  — Andrew Richdale, GQ, 15 Dec. 2017
• Cohn, who was a closeted gay man, died from AIDS in 1986.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
• O’Callaghan played six seasons in the NFL as a closeted gay man.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• The Inspection, as a closeted Black gay man in the Marine Corps.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2023
• One was from a closeted Catholic priest inspired to confide in O’Callaghan.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 21 June 2017
• The movie touches on real-life issues that face athletes in the closeted world of sports.
  — David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• Bloys reveals that much of his wit comes from growing up young, closeted and gay in the steel town of Bethlehem, Pa.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
• It was well known among the New York elite, but not discussed, that Cohn was a closeted gay man — which never seemed to bother Trump.
  — Robert Samuels, Washington Post, 26 July 2017
• Why do Harper and Joe Pitt, a closeted gay man, get married?
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
• Some have suggested that clues and codes in his play suggest the playwright was a closeted Catholic.
  — Anthony D. Baker, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2021
• Homophobia, and the need to stay closeted, rears its head too.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 19 June 2020
• At the time, the country star was in a loving (but closeted) relationship with a man.
  — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 4 June 2019
• Ed Koch is a closeted jerk; Brooke Astor brings carnations to a grave.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• Or, rather, Jennifer is the victim of Needy’s thirst for affirmation as a way to stay closeted in high school.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024
• Some folks were of the closeted fandom variety, while others were just killing time on their lunch breaks.
  — Leslie Richin, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2018
• Rumors and allegations flew in the aftermath of the tragedy that the killer was a closeted, self-loathing gay man who had scoped out the club to plan for his attack.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• In many gay dramas, the closeted man is presented as the source of greatest danger to his comrades in arms.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Even my work as a closeted man was still about talking about these little tender pockets of things that aren’t talked about.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• Johnny got engaged to their old closeted gym teacher, Coach Craft (more on that in a second).
  — Benjamin Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2021
• Anthony Perkins was a closeted gay man, though married to Berry Berensen, who kept that all secret from the public and her two kids.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 9 July 2024
• With the advent of affordable tape cassettes and car tapedecks, even the most closeted Olivia fans could own the music and be inspired by it while driving to and from work.
  — Bonnie J. Morris, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2018
• Many closeted men need liquid or powdered courage to act on their feelings.
  — Zachary Zane, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2023
• Throughout, Uglow patiently traces the contours of a closeted gay man’s life.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• Imagine what seeing that flag on our military bases in Afghanistan must have meant for closeted Afghans.
  — Lz Granderson, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
• Unbeknownst to anyone at the firm, Norman was a closeted gay man — a fact that comes out at his funeral.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• For one: how Phil’s malevolence comes from a place of self-loathing and self-protection as a closeted gay man living in Montana in 1925.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• Harry Styles played a closeted cop in My Policeman in 2022.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 23 May 2024
• Cohn, who is gay, turns his own closeted existence into a form of power.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
• The pic takes place in the 1950s, where married Muriel and her brother-in-law Julius embark on separate but parallel straight life paths, only to discover their closeted desires bubbling to the surface.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024