How to Use secrecy in a Sentence

secrecy

noun

• But the secrecy around the discipline process — and the outcome of the case — alarmed her.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
• There’s an air of secrecy to the work some of these groups are doing.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2022
• The secrecy of the compound was evident in the wake of Medeiros’ death.
  — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
• The world of spies is, by its very nature, cloaked in secrecy.
  — WIRED, 7 Jan. 2023
• The secrecy about the film has been purposeful, as many of the cast members have said.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2023
• Its secrecy laws are also among the strictest in the country.
  — Robert Frank, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
• Much of the deal is shrouded in secrecy, including the date of the hostages’ return.
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 Aug. 2023
• They are shrouded in secrecy in a way adult courts are not.
  — Meribah Knight, ProPublica, 26 Oct. 2023
• This song is strictly for the hardcore, a note passed in secrecy from fan to fan, kept as an oath.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024
• There’s a reason the whole thing had been shrouded in secrecy.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2023
• The right of billionaires to travel in secrecy is a niche concern, to say the least.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• All that secrecy fed into a sense of shame, and there was no reason for it.
  — Jessica Biel, TIME, 14 May 2024
• In her memoir, the e-mail marks the fulcrum between the secrecy of her past and her more open future.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• No sooner has the trio made a pact of secrecy than their families start to find out.
  — Time, 30 June 2023
• Despite the secrecy, some details have emerged, even as the final choice has not.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2023
• Chloe doesn’t worry about her secrecy — at least for now.
  — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 8 Oct. 2024
• Starting in the 1970s, shelters were built on the assumption that secrecy is safest.
  — Katheryn Houghton, CBS News, 24 May 2023
• That model stems from the belief that secrecy keeps survivors safe from their abusers.
  — Katheryn Houghton, CBS News, 24 May 2023
• The military police could kick down any door with impunity, and the new band had to play in secrecy.
  — Matthew Dursum, SPIN, 20 Nov. 2023
• This means the secrecy and shroud of silence will continue at USC any time there is a scandal.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Steeped in secrecy and a burning desire for revenge, her return to Havana is a chance to right the wrong that has been done to her—and her prey is on the ship.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• The cases have been shrouded in secrecy with sparse details about the nature of their cases.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• Many of the train stations that Putin travels to were constructed in secrecy.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
• Most of the participants, sworn to an oath of secrecy, took their identities as Tea Partiers to their graves.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
• McKellen says that the secrecy and threat of scandal that Erskine has to endure is what pushes him to the dark side.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• Living in the frigid waters off the coast of Antarctica, the giant sea spider has hatched its young in secrecy for over 140 years.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• The effort took place in total secrecy, kept even from Congress.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
• The White House Situation Room — a space of great mystique and even greater secrecy — just got a $50 million facelift.
  — Colleen Long, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• The project, planned in secrecy, is largely absent from history books.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
• The secrecy of conclaves After the controversy in 1903, conclaves became much more secretive.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024