How to Use secret society in a Sentence

secret society

noun
Definition of secret societynext
  • 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
  • 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
  • Maybe these texts show there is some kind of secret society of top FBI officials, who meet off the record to, ostensibly, do things that further their anti-Trump bias.
    — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Well, nothing except for rampant corruption within the FBI and a secret society of Trump haters.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The cryptic 6-second teaser video showed symbols hinting at a game centering around the Court of Owls, which is a secret society that controls things behind the scenes in Gotham City.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 24 Sep. 2019

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