How to Use keep a secret in a Sentence

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  • And the worst way to keep a secret is to tell your kids.
    Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • And Mike Mullen and all those involved in the raid knew how to keep a secret.
    ABC News, 2 May 2021
  • Five decades ago, Kathy Aderhold was told to keep a secret.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Dear Annie: My mother-in-law can’t keep a secret to save her life.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 30 June 2022
  • Shoot, a prospect’s ability to keep a secret should factor into the grade, too.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Shoot, a prospect’s ability to keep a secret should factor into the grade, too.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Marvel Studios knows how to keep a secret, but even the team that assembled the Avengers isn’t perfect.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 28 May 2021
  • Chase, the troublemaker, tries and fails to bribe his little brother Grayson to keep a secret with $100.
    Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Tell them that no one should ever ask them to keep a secret about touching from their parents or caregivers.
    Hana Khalyleh, The Enquirer, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Still, obstacles remain — not least because of questions about the U.S.’s own ability to keep a secret.
    Time, 5 Oct. 2023
  • What use could health care have for someone who makes things up, can’t keep a secret, doesn’t really know anything, and, when speaking, simply fills in the next word based on what’s come before?
    Darius Tahir, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
  • What use could healthcare have for someone who makes things up, can’t keep a secret, doesn’t really know anything, and, when speaking, simply fills in the next word based on what’s come before?
    Darius Tahir | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • Sharpton: 'Nobody calls me to keep a secret' Sharpton, who had no editorial control of the film, has no problem with the title.
    Neal Justin, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Also, Higgins decides to keep a secret of her own after having a romantic dream about Magnum.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Sandberg clearly was surprised and emotional over the news, which his large family somehow managed to keep a secret.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
  • On Monday morning, Ramírez sent Vallecillo a series of text message asking her to keep a secret.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 1 July 2022
  • But Samsung can’t keep a secret, and its own Unpacked website is leaking information.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The accounting firm that tabulates votes for the Oscars — including for best actor — apparently is able to keep a secret.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
  • Children learn to keep a secret about age 6 or 7, for example, and learning the requisite skills of deception is a part of typical development, the beginnings of a psychological identity.
    Benedict Carey New York Times, Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020

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