How to Use secret society in a Sentence

secret society

noun
  • Meanwhile, a secret society sends the young abroad to find help.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • If Yale’s secret societies did blood magic.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Both were fresh recruits to a campus secret society, but friendship didn’t seem likely.
    — Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Joan claims she was forced to hand over compromising photos and videos in order to join the secret society.
    — CBS News, 17 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Along the way there were others, like the Know Nothings, which started as a secret society.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 15 May 2021
  • To start a secret society inside your heart and to invite yourself back into your fantasy life.
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 25 May 2018
  • 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
  • The real reason is that Ko Lyn is going to be tapped for a campus secret society.
    — Anne Fadiman, Wired, 17 June 2020
  • How about an occult secret society, an ancestral deal with the devil and a love triangle?
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • To outsiders, the ribbons might look like scout badges or sashes from a secret society — swag from a party they weren’t invited to.
    — Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • Today the secret society has around 6m members, most of them in America.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Omar finds himself in countless antics in an attempt to get accepted into one of the school’s secret societies.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The Knox is Boston's most elusive secret society.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • What is the purpose of a secret society of aristocrats called the Tragedians?
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • 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
  • This is an oddly subversive notion of tradition, the past as secret society.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • This is a grand adventure and cracking good mystery awash with gaslighting, brawls, murders, red herrings and a secret society.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In this Dutch show, a woman realizes the secret society she's joined is built on demonic secrets.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
  • She’s driven back to the Seven Dials district and is taken up to the room above the club where the secret society meets.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Beyond that, his wordlessly told tale of a secret society, a monster, and a woman out for revenge (possibly?
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Pentaverate is about a secret society that has been working to control world events since 1347.
    — Vulture, 28 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • La Mutua formed in 1900 as a secret society to assist members fighting against the theft of their land and water rights.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • In May, Sarah Edmondson began to recoil from her embrace of the secret society.
    — Barry Meier, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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