How to Use secret police in a Sentence

secret police

noun

• The Game, a thriller set among the secret police in 1960s Budapest.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2022
• In the church vault were sound recordings of the sermon that had been made by the East German secret police.
  — Jefferson Chase, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2018
• But in the frantic final days of the regime, the secret police began tearing up files.
  — Fox News, 10 Nov. 2019
• She is hounded by the secret police, and suffers the deaths of her baby and mother-in-law.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2017
• After all, the guobao, or Chinese secret police, had shadowed him for the better part of a decade.
  — Han Zhang, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Among those freed with Korolev was someone who had denounced him to the secret police.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
• But a few months later, that plan foundered when some of his generals and secret police agents launched a coup against him.
  — Ronald Suny, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2022
• The crime was ultimately traced to agents of Pinochet’s secret police.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• But someone ratted her out, and the head of the Cheka (the national secret police force), Solomon Mogilevsky, gave her a choice: Go to jail or spy for us.
  — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• These days many governments that want to cow their critics are as likely to use the taxman as the secret police.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• Olga, too, was imprisoned and only released thanks to his appeal to the head of the secret police.
  — Douglas Smith, WSJ, 14 June 2019
• At least one Republican has compared the orders to the Gestapo, the secret police force of Nazi Germany.
  — Andrew Solender, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• Scores of new books and films portray the era in glowing colors, and vintage secret police uniforms are on sale.
  — Adam Hochschild, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
• But knowing they could get snatched by secret police didn't stop the people of Portland from protesting then.
  — W. Kamau Bell, CNN, 16 May 2021
• The first checkpoint appears just a few minutes’ drive from the headquarters of Mr. Maduro’s secret police.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2021
• Chiang’s secret police ensured no one stepped out of line.
  — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• Oh, and anyone who speaks out or against the government is taken away by The Eyes — the state’s secret police — and most likely never seen again.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• In January 1921, he was shot in his sleep by the Soviet secret police.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2022
• The guards here are closely connected with the Russian secret police, indeed are almost a part of it.
  — Maxim Osipov, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• The Soviet secret police had a robust U.S. presence in the 1950s, and Cynthia feared these agents would kill her children.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• Eilish Stack lives in a Dublin ruled by secret police, who sweep in one night and detain her union-official husband; her son joins the rebel forces.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• His father, Valentin, was an officer with the secret police.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 23 July 2021
• Within hours, a horde of Saudi secret police were deployed to her apartment.
  — Rafia Zakaria, New Republic, 11 Oct. 2017
• The Russian authorities threw him in jail for setting fire to the door of the secret police headquarters in Moscow.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• Exiles like al-Hail dismiss any sign of public support of the government as the coercive fear of the secret police.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• And so the forerunners of the secret police that the Tsarist era and then the Soviet era, modernized and expanded, were created in that time frame.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Lavrenty Beria, the secret police chief who bid for power after Stalin’s death, was shot through the forehead.
  — Chris Miller, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• At the beginning of the occupation the résistants distributed leaflets, and were easy prey for the Gestapo, the German secret police.
  — Alan Furst, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• Hearsay was already common currency in a place where press censorship and the secret police prevailed, and the war in Europe stoked the rumor mills.
  — Time, 3 Jan. 2020
• Dems appeared with a diplomat linked to China’s secret police station in Manhattan.
  — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024