How to Use secret sauce in a Sentence

secret sauce

noun
  • That was a lot of the secret sauce.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And that’s kind of our secret sauce.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • That’s part of our secret sauce.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • That’s one of our secret sauces.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2025
  • Yet the secret sauce was in the service.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Look, a lot of it is in the secret sauce of the business.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026
  • What’s the secret sauce for snagging him for a project?
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2026
  • What’s the secret sauce that makes a recipe resonate with you?
    — Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The secret sauce was never the recipe.
    — John Winsor, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • So what's the secret sauce to so much success and steady growth?
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Color, done just right, can be the spice in the secret sauce.
    — Ralph Pucci, Robb Report, 16 May 2021
  • Eynon said the brand’s secret sauce is its top-sheet graphics.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2026
  • So what’s the secret sauce for speedy results?
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And therein lies his secret sauce.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Wiggins calls that the secret sauce.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The secret sauce behind it all is the husband and wife duo who runs the show.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Oct. 2019
  • That’s the secret sauce, what people take away from the Camino.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Pieces of pork come seasoned with spicy ranch salt and drizzled in a secret sauce.
    — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • What’s the secret sauce to your creative process when making your hits?
    — Breanna Chianne, refinery29.com, 28 June 2021
  • Share this with a friend — pass along a little secret sauce of kindness!
    — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The egg melts into the pretzel bun, and there’s a secret sauce that goes with that.
    — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • That was part of the secret sauce behind the Switch and its steady stream of games.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
  • That to me is the secret sauce of these guys that go to another level.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 15 Apr. 2021
  • What’s the secret sauce of a Julia Roberts laugh?
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Their synergy was the secret sauce that built the best team in football.
    — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The soundscapes for our series are the secret sauce of a great wildlife series.
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Having been a member of this locker room, that is the secret sauce to this place.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2020
  • Souffle pancakes stacks are served with secret sauces like a custard.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2026
  • But Nvidia’s secret sauce is more than just GPUs.
    — Rosa De Acosta, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Well, that's the secret sauce of being a macro economist, right?
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2022

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