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
  • Hotel floors were locked down by the official secret service; the corridors were crammed with lines of petitioners and in one case a Wall Street boss gatecrashed the room in order to hug his idol.
    The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The Austrian government has long been concerned about the influence of Turkey’s secret service in Austria and this latest case has raised the alarm.
    Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • What's undisputed is four lives have been taken at the hands of a gunman, who was previously arrested by the secret service.
    Tanya A. Christian, Essence.com, 24 Apr. 2018

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