How to Use top secret in a Sentence

top secret

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  • The guys’ work is top secret, and why would the women even need to know?
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Until the evening before the event, the guest list is top secret.
    — Kerry McDermott, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Most of the show’s plotlines have been kept top secret.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Join a top secret mission to save the world from itself.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Visit the link in my bio for the top secret Cheese Mound recipe and more easy recipes/hosting hacks.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Who is invited to the Met Gala? Until the evening before the event, the guest list is top secret.
    — Vogue, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Also, that Dark Star sequence was shot in an area that is top secret.
    — Vulture, 2 June 2022
  • Nagenda is also privy to the top secret details of the project, but stays mum on specifics.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Did you guys have to do any Game of Thrones–level, top secret practices to keep the big twist under wraps?
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 July 2021
  • One catch: the Navy wanted the expedition to find the submarines to be top secret.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 22 June 2023
  • Yeager’s feat was kept top secret for about a year when the world thought the British had broken the sound barrier first.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Yeager's feat was kept top secret for about a year when the world thought the British had broken the sound barrier first.
    — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The location and exact dates will be top secret for both their sakes.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 5 Aug. 2018
  • Brett Goldstein's role in Thor: Love and Thunder was so top secret, not even his mom could know about it.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 19 July 2022
  • While the activists may not see any UFOs, the top secret base has seen its share of unusual aircraft over the years.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2019
  • Not everyone at the White House has a top secret clearance.
    — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Kate Middleton and Prince William are solving some top secret puzzles...with the help of their kids!
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The locations are top secret and the mystery will not be revealed until Feb. 26, the day of the Secret Garden Tour.
    — Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • David Laufman, former DOJ lawyer, said top secret records were kept in secure rooms, in safes.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Folded over and over again as if top secret, the ink faded though clearly her mother’s hand.
    — Kate Walbert, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Mouret, who is friends with Prince Harry’s fiancee Meghan Markle, is one of the designers tipped to take on the top secret job of making her wedding dress.
    — Sylvia Hui, The Seattle Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Klein had a top secret security clearance that was renewed in 2019, the FBI said.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But since they were told to keep it top secret, IGP Thapa was unable to reveal details, even to the home minister.
    — Sudheer Sharma, Quartz India, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The British, just like the Germans, are excellent chemists who can with one hint do what in Moscow is classified as top secret.
    — Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • When the Kardashians were ready to begin their new show, everything was kept top secret.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Most of his professional life was top secret, better known to the Mossad than to most Iranians.
    — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2021
  • No one is above the law, and stealing top secret documents is not acceptable.
    — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The selection process is top secret, but over a 25 year period, some of the winners had something in common.
    — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • After a British spy ship carrying a top secret transmitter is sunk off the Albanian coast, 007 races to salvage the wreck before the Russians do.
    — Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 29 May 2024
  • Federal agents raided Mar-a-Lago in 2022 and seized dozens of classified and top secret documents.
    — Russell Lewis, NPR, 7 May 2024

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