How to Use secret society in a Sentence
secret society
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Meanwhile, a secret society sends the young abroad to find help.
— Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 -
Jackson, the series is set in the world of secret societies.
— David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2018 -
Moe breaks the most sacred rule of a secret society of bartenders, who seek vengeance on Homer and his friends.
— Washington Post, 22 May 2021 -
Kevin Hart is lifting the lid on a very secret society!
— Madeleine Janz, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024 -
When the students of Elite Way High head back to school for the new term, a secret society called the Lodge threatens the musical dreams of the first years.
— Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 24 Feb. 2022 -
Along the way there were others, like the Know Nothings, which started as a secret society.
— Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 15 May 2021 -
The family has its own social media pages, beers and even a secret society, The Order of the Wheel.
— Lauren Lumpkin, baltimoresun.com, 5 June 2018 -
Chipping totally killed himself, and no one here is in a secret society, and also the sky is green and the Earth is flat, okay?
— Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 21 Nov. 2019 -
Her search for answers brings her to The Order of the Cruciform Sword, a secret society of warrior nuns sworn to protect the world from evil.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 July 2020 -
The real reason is that Ko Lyn is going to be tapped for a campus secret society.
— Anne Fadiman, Wired, 17 June 2020 -
Called The Pentaverate, the series is about a secret society that has been working to control world events since 1347.
— Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 8 June 2021 -
The Pentaverate is about a secret society that has been working to control world events since 1347.
— Vulture, 28 Apr. 2022 -
In order to learn more about this secret society, to even get the pitch, invitees had to turn over something valuable.
— Vanessa Grigoriadis, New York Times, 30 May 2018 -
By Night follows a secret society of monster hunters who dedicate their lives to stopping the creatures that go bump in the night.
— Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 Oct. 2022 -
Joan claims she was forced to hand over compromising photos and videos in order to join the secret society.
— CBS News, 17 Dec. 2020 -
This is the avowed purpose of the secret society to which every adult French Canadian belongs.
— David Vernette, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019 -
As Elite Way School starts a new term, a familiar enemy — a secret society called the Lodge — threatens to crash the musical hopes of the first-years.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 19 Jan. 2022 -
That was the response members of the Order of the Star Spangled Banner were supposed to give when asked about their secret society, which was founded in 1849.
— Richard Galant, CNN, 13 Feb. 2022 -
What is the purpose of a secret society of aristocrats called the Tragedians?
— Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 18 July 2024 -
To outsiders, the ribbons might look like scout badges or sashes from a secret society — swag from a party they weren’t invited to.
— Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024 -
Today the secret society has around 6m members, most of them in America.
— The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020 -
That creepy titular secret society from the 2000 Paul Walker classic The Skulls.
— Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 10 July 2018 -
She is tapped as a member of Lethe, a group tasked with overseeing the underground (and very dangerous) sorcery of the school’s secret societies.
— EW.com, 8 Oct. 2019 -
But a secret society—with its own laws and norms, answerable solely to its own members—can’t exist in a democracy for long if those norms aren’t in line with the rest of the country’s.
— Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023 -
In some cases, artists even argue that their bestowment is rather a result of a secret society of tastemakers.
— Brooklyn White, Essence, 26 May 2021 -
In May, Sarah Edmondson began to recoil from her embrace of the secret society.
— Barry Meier, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017 -
The original founders, all of whom were under the age of 25, soon invited four other male painters, sculptors and critics to join their secret society.
— Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020 -
Both were fresh recruits to a campus secret society, but friendship didn’t seem likely.
— Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023 -
Not that a seven-year-old boy in Detroit in the 1970s had those words, but loving Duesenbergs felt like knowing the password into a secret society.
— Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 9 Aug. 2020 -
The eclectic array of antique decor and furniture, dark-wood fixtures and a flag emblazoned with the emblem of a fictitious secret society set the ambiance.
— Usa Today Network, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
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