How to Use secret service in a Sentence

secret service

noun
  • For the players who are pretending to be the secret service, the best skin to wear is John Wick.
    Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 8 June 2018
  • The first room had three secret service agents wearing duck bills on their faces.
    Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • All the secret services in the world had penetrated it by now.
    The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Every one knows the vast sums laid out in Europe for secret services.
    Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019
  • They were warned by the Algerian secret service to be on the lookout for U.S. spies who might try to harm them.
    USA Today, 29 July 2021
  • And there would have been a lot of lives lost that day, Major, but that was not really secret service lives...
    CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • According to the Ukrainian secret service, most of the deceased are from remote areas in Siberia, the south or the far east.
    Markus Ziener, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • According to the report, no one — not even secret service — was briefed on the photo shoot.
    Christina Coleman, Essence.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Not to mention the more than 100 secret service members who contracted the virus.
    Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • In a surprise to no one except Mr. Vice President and his secret service detail, things take a turn for the worse.
    Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 4 July 2022
  • Even the Italian secret services have found the country’s minorities to be at high risk of racist attacks.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 17 July 2019
  • There’s secret service guys all over the building, and there’s people taking selfies, and videos.
    Craig Taylor, Curbed, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Jonathan Wackrow, a former secret service agent, shared with CNN.
    Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 11 June 2018
  • Hey, nobody said joining her majesty’s secret service would be cheap.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Six of Trump’s campaign staffers who worked the Tulsa rally were diagnosed with the novel virus, as were two of his secret service agents.
    Tanya A. Christian, Essence, 9 July 2020
  • She had been told that anybody entering it would be photographed and detained by the secret service.
    Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Notably, in 2014, two Belgian Malinois with the secret service brought down a White House intruder, who had climbed over the gates.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Trump allegedly tried to fight a secret service agent and literally grab the wheel.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022
  • The Secret Service, the film franchise focused on British secret service agents for which Bremont made watches to appear on the big screen.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Let’s hope the secret service can identify all those involved.
    Fox News, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Omar is tight with the Pakistan secret service and becomes an agent for them; later he’s seen recruiting young men to fight for Islam.
    Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2017
  • Doug Mills was standing in the aisle with his camera and the president was standing in the doorway between the secret service cabin and our cabin.
    Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The climber was not identified, but was taken to a D.C. police station for processing, the secret service said.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Also, Ivanka Trump is here with a swarm of secret service personnel.
    Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Additionally, one of the secret service men was holding a red rose.
    Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Break out the aviator shades and tiny earpieces because Wawa is officially in the secret service game.
    Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 11 June 2018
  • It was filled with Hamas security guards with their rigid attire and looks that reminded me of the secret service in Iraq during Saddam's time.
    Marie Claire, 15 Feb. 2010
  • And, apparently, to delight the Ted Lasso-loving members of the secret service.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Lamb’s duty to his country is to oversee a group of outcast UK secret service operatives sent out to pasture at a rickety outpost known as Slough House.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 18 July 2024
  • The fake image of the smiling secret service agents still exists on X, formerly Twitter, but now with a Community Note attached.
    Megan Morrone, Axios, 22 July 2024

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