How to Use secret in a Sentence

secret

1 of 2 adjective

• I don't know the secret password.
• They've been very secret about their plans.
• He was sent on a secret mission.
• The message was written in secret code.
• She tried to keep her marriage secret.
• Her secret wish is to become a senator.
• They engaged in secret negotiations with the enemy.
• Our lips are our secret weapon, but the winter weather can leave them dry and chapped.
  — Essence, 13 Dec. 2023
• The spot even has its own secret entrance for celebrities.
  — Michelle Duncan, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2023
• Knock, wait for the sliding peephole to open and provide the secret password.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• The couple had a secret wedding that night — which was a surprise to Hannah.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
• The antique secretary in the mudroom hides mail and a secret stash of beloved vases.
  — House Beautiful, 17 May 2023
• Staff hired to pull off the secret soiree had to sign non-disclosure agreements, the site said Friday.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• If the lip-sync assassin wins, a secret group vote will determine which queen gets the chop.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 May 2023
• This was kept secret until the 1990s, when millions of dollars were spent on removal and clean-up.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• But why would a secret aircraft fly in full view of imaging satellites?
  — Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
• Red clamps and blue tape take credit for the hard work done by secret dabs of glue, while other yips of color compete with the gray floors, and lose.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2023
• Within the park lies a web of hiking trails, secret waterfalls, and herds of elephants.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
• In July, 1971, with the help of Pakistan’s military, Kissinger made a secret trip to China.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• Dunkin’ says rewards members get access to deals and secret menu items and earn points towards free food and drinks.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• And, hidden among the foliage, there’s a secret outdoor shower.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023
• The secret ingredient, which most lack and all will need to embrace in the future, is system-ness.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The law, the first of its kind, will also keep secret visitor logs to the governor’s mansion and his office.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
• There was one more secret Amanda had been keeping from Razvan, even while filming the tell-all.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
• Inside the Proud Boys trial: Videos and secret chats revealed how the Jan. 6 plot unfolded.
  — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• From vitamin C serums to curl creams, Amazon’s secret list of on-sale items just keeps on growing.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 13 June 2023
• The collector’s identity wasn’t the only thing that has been kept secret.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• Her kitchen help stirred with giant spoons as Gibson walked around them, sprinkling handfuls of secret spices in each pot.
  — Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
• This groundbreaking research was so secret, in fact, that professionals in my field will learn about it here for the first time.
  — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
• For more than two decades, the Goldmans have chased down secret hordes of Simpson’s memorabilia.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024

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secret

2 of 2 noun

• The secret to a good sauce is the base.
• Don't tell him about the party—it's a secret.
• She shared her beauty secrets with the group.
• I'm going to tell you a secret, but you have to promise not to tell anyone else.
• You always look great. What's your secret?
• Whitney wasn’t the only housewife on the couch to have her secret spilled.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
• Until that point, great pains had been taken to keep the secret.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• As their fame grew, so did the pressure to keep the secret — and the inevitability that the truth would come out.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Who knows what new secrets the sun will reveal to us next?
  — Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2024
• The danger of such neighborhoods is that old secrets are known to all.
  — Elena Lappin, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• After Kendall’s good friend Death leaves, Kendall tells a secret to the hamster.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 June 2023
• Before White Blood Cells, the band had been, for the most part, an underground secret.
  — Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 1 June 2023
• Luckily, Blake, 35, has shared some health secrets in the past.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 28 July 2023
• But the location of her favorite paw paw patch is a secret.
  — Scott Enman, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
• In Vogue’s latest episode of Off the Cuff, the two co-stars giggle over secrets, spoilers, dream roles, and items stolen from set.
  — Lea Donenberg, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
• Could Kelce have been in on the big secret about Swift’s upcoming album?
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• What's the secret to keeping the spark alive in your relationship?
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• Danes and Olyphant shine as a couple with a few major-league secrets between them.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• Well, we were inspired by her sleek physique and wanted to share some of her workout secrets with you all.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
• That secret is very likely to come out soon and will have ripple effects in our friend group.
  — Amy Dickinson, cleveland, 19 July 2023
• Will Christie be able to unlock all her family’s secrets and escape the curse that has doomed so many over the years?
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 29 July 2023
• Gabriela Amerth, 28, had kept Logan’s death a secret since last summer.
  — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 28 May 2023
• There are grudges, and wounds, and a terrible racist secret in the attic, as there is in much of American life.
  — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
• That led to five years of dating in secret because of my mom’s family.
  — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• Then, if the conditions are right, the system can reconstruct the secret.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
• The whole idea that magic is built on secrets is a very superficial idea.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2023
• Oprah Winfrey is unearthing the slithery, slimy secrets of her kitchen.
  — Elizabeth Leonard, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
• Hayek then adds that she’s got another secret up her sleeve, courtesy of her hair pro.
  — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• About a decade ago, the secret started to get out, thanks to a guy named Massimo Dell’Erba—a physicist by day and passionate eater and home cook by night.
  — Dan Pashman, Saveur, 11 Apr. 2024
• But that’s part of the secret of the show’s success, Tarlov said — the politics, sure, but also the personalities.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024