How to Use secret agent in a Sentence

secret agent

noun
  • Oh, and there's lots of action and stunts and fighting and secret agent stuff.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
  • Some are even themed: There is an '80s video game dome, a space galaxy dome, a British secret agent dome, and a unicorn and rainbows dome with pink accents.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This movie isn’t the first time Michelle Monaghan has played a woman who’s unknowingly married to a secret agent of sorts.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The success of the James Bond books and films had set off a chain reaction, with secret agents proliferating on both large and small screens.
    CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • If the accusations are true, Rocha may turn out to have been one of Cuba’s most successful secret agents.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Secret Spy Game deems kids secret agents protecting the museum from a villain who wants to take it over.
    Rebecca Treon, Chron, 30 Apr. 2023
  • But behind the scenes, neutral Switzerland takes center stage in a relentless battle between the secret agents of the world powers.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The film lasts seven minutes and follows two secret agents en route to a meeting in Cannes when they are attacked by unknown enemies.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 16 May 2023
  • Thurman and Klementieff play a pair of secret agents who have been summoned separately to a meet point in Cannes.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • Water Painting Your kids will feel like a secret agent with this water play activity!
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 6 June 2023
  • The romantic action comedy starred de Armas as a secret agent who falls in love with Evans’ everyday farmer.
    Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
  • In Alfred Hitchcock’s spy adventure, Cary Grant stars as an ad executive mistaken for a secret agent who goes on the run.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024
  • His past as a secret agent (government assassin) prepared him to use violence to level the playing field of the criminal world.
    Armond White, National Review, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Trust is the foundation of a good relationship, and going all secret agent on your partner will betray that connection.
    Danielle Fox, Seventeen, 15 Feb. 2023
  • And going into multiple rehearsals with that suit on, and just the whole process was super duper, FBI, super, super, secret agent everything.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In it, Maxwell Smart plays a bumbling secret agent who relies on a shoe-phone to conduct clandestine conversations.
    Will Townsend, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Her enigmatic secret agent Grace is taken in by Italian police and winds up running into Ethan: She's supposed to be tailing him but also was in possession of a key that a bunch of folks want.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • These were the devices deployed in 1970 by amateur secret agents that Kasrils recruited in London on orders from Tambo.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 July 2023
  • That statement cuts to the heart of the show’s poignant central question, of how two people — any two people, not just elite secret agents — might build a life together in spite of seemingly insurmountable differences.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Despite Brosnan giving Murphy, 47, his seal of approval to play the fictional secret agent, the Oppenheimer star feels otherwise.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The first-time author reportedly landed a $200 million movie deal with Apple for the fourth book in her reality-blurring secret agent series.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Instead of suggesting the front door, however, Ferguson did what any self-respecting secret agent would.
    Hanna Flint, Town & Country, 6 June 2023
  • Crack codes and complete missions to become secret agents Kids approaching their tween years may feel like a children's museum is too childish—but this exhibit geared for older kids will change their mind.
    Rebecca Treon, Chron, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Her story coincidentally mirrors the mission of a real-life spy syndicate, putting her in the cross-hairs of dangerous secret agents.
    Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Appearing like a secret agent's gadget from the Spy Kids universe, the all-white box can transform from what easily could be confused as a briefcase to an oddly rectangular sit-down scooter.
    Kevin Williams, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Caine has played secret agents, playboys, adventurers, schoolteachers and killers.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Koba and his cohort aren’t yet immensely public figures, so May (and Elli) can view them as almost comically fallible — until a plot by the Okhrana, the czar’s secret agents, provides a stark warning of the dark days ahead.
    Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • That unexpected call sets off a deadly chain of events as Peter uncovers a vast conspiracy that involves secret agents and the highest levels of government.
    Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The term invoked imperial European courts—the word spy originated from Old French, espie—and British secret agents, symbols of an old world that the young republic was trying to break away and distinguish itself from.
    WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Still, behind the scenes, neutral Switzerland turns into a setting for a battle between international secret agents.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 Oct. 2023

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