How to Use dirty little secret in a Sentence

dirty little secret

noun
  • Belts shouldn’t be your dirty little secret anymore.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Russia has a dirty little secret.
    — Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The dirty little secret about the NHL, however, is that great teams fundamentally aren’t built on draft day.
    — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Meanwhile, Kuzma may have just revealed a dirty little secret about how to guard the University of Kentucky product.
    — Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The dirty little secret most insiders either don’t realize or do not want to admit is that the entire TV eco-system rests on the shoulders of these networks.
    — Ted Linhart, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The dirty little secret is that very few of the 130 FBS athletic departments operate in the black when factoring total revenues, expenses and debt service.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
  • For easy debris pickup, the Shark HydroVac MessMaster Cordless Wet Dry Vacuum is our not-so-dirty little secret.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2025

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