How to Use open secret in a Sentence

open secret

noun

• It's an open secret that he's been cheating on his wife.
• The fate of all those tapes has been an open secret for years.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2019
• The sonnets are an open secret, at which the wife scoffs.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The open secret is that the 20-year-old ain’t that much of a cowboy to begin with.
  — Brian Josephs, EW.com, 21 June 2019
• One of the open secrets of live stand-up is that the most famous names are rarely the funniest ones on the bill.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 2 July 2018
• Look, this story was a big open secret for a very, very long time.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 22 July 2021
• Was the Lindsay Lohan cameo an open secret amongst the cast?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024
• That’s because the plot’s biggest spoiler leaked over and over to the point where it’s all an open secret.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 2 Nov. 2021
• The nature of the pro se committee was an open secret at the courthouse.
  — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
• Kenny’s abuse of Erin was an open secret in the Ross family.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 May 2021
• The lawsuit claims the abuse of young athletes was known and tolerated for years as an 'open secret' in the sport.
  — Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2024
• In Berlin, the Ökohaus project remains something of an open secret.
  — Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• For much of the 20th century, joke stealing was an open secret.
  — Eric Spitznagel, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• The illegitimacy of Rhaenyra's sons seems to be an open secret in the Red Keep.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Sep. 2022
• The steady stream of people walking out with a tiny bag of Fritos and giant smiles on their faces was an open secret in the neighborhood.
  — Chris Goldstein, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The friends-and-family line for Pastis and Balthazar is an open secret.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
• Fiercely denied by the Houthis, the existence of child soldiers in Yemen is an open secret.
  — TIME.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• In some ways, this has been the biggest open secret in digital media.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
• The suggestion: the affair was an open secret, not a motive for murder.
  — Debora Patta, CBS News, 2 July 2023
• But, for now, the most important thing to take away is this: The trouble playing out now is a story years in the making—and the outcome of an open secret.
  — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 July 2024
• One guesses that Keynes’s predatory ways with younger males was an open secret.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• The role of public funding in drug development has been an open secret for decades.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• The area had an open secret then: It was filled with stations on the Underground Railroad for slaves trying to reach freedom.
  — Dan Sewell, Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020
• The dark history of Bisbee was largely an open secret for decades in the funky old copper town just seven miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
  — Washington Post, 14 July 2019
• The fact that Cregger had a new project was an open secret, but getting one’s hands on the new material was anything but easy.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
• Talib, the member of the Newark squad, recalled that their identities became an open secret in the Nation.
  — Les Payne, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2020
• This is what his version of that dully familiar standby, the open secret, looked like.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
• The hypocrisy of Russian officials and their families enjoying the largesse of the West has been an open secret in Russia for years.
  — CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
• There will very likely be more allegations in the months to come, more open secrets stripped of their secrecy.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017
• The blatant pandering and lack of seriousness of this suggestion was an open secret in South Korea.
  — Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024