How to Use top secret in a Sentence

top secret

adjective
  • The mission is top secret.
  • The dress was top secret—Burton didn't even tell her mom.
    — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The stunt was kept top secret, even from some of Kelly's own staff.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • That’s the opposite of top secret.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Soviet involvement was top secret at the time, so the records of the event were classified for decades.
    — James Laporta, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Hugo is the one pulling the strings behind the scenes to arrange for Daniel’s theft of the top secret materials.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 June 2026
  • Everything was so under wraps, especially our legacy cast members — super top secret.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the information in question was classified as top secret, according to the indictment.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • There’s top secret sensitive information that only someone that’s really looking hard can find, seeking the truth.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
  • However, specific plot and character details are being kept top secret for now — including whether any former cast members will return.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Perez-Lugones, who held a top secret security clearance, is accused of printing classified and sensitive reports at work.
    — Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Other semi-public spaces, including El Secreto and La Cava, were either not ready for guests or so top secret as to elude me.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Therefore, their work, whether from menial day-to-day tasks to top secret missions for national security are consistently linked back to the overarching mission of defending their country.
    — Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Perez-Lugones, who holds a top secret security clearance, is accused of accessing a classified report related to an unnamed foreign country, taking a screen shot and printing it.
    — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • While most college coaches treat their practices like a top secret meeting, Dykes has maintained a wide-open media policy, allowing reporters to watch full practices in the spring and fall camps, and even allowing fans and media to watch entire scrimmages.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This book and movie also have one of my favorite Clancy Facts, which is that Tom revealed a top secret, silent navigation technology that caused a minor stir in the world of military-industrial-complex boat guys.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
  • In the initial indictment against him, Bolton was accused of improperly keeping documents, writings, and notes related to national defense, including some information that was classified as top secret.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • Taylor, along with Eaddy Kiernan Bunzel and the rest of the events team, spends practically all of April in a conference room at the Vogue office, going over the seating chart, which lives on a large poster board that is kept top secret.
    — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 2 May 2026
  • The indictment claims that the entries included sensitive information up to the top secret and sensitive compartmented information level, a designation that means it was derived from sensitive intelligence sources.
    — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • Perez-Lugones searched systems at his work for classified information without authorization, including a report classified as top secret related to an unspecified foreign country, according to the affidavit.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The Soviet Union tested more than 450 bombs at its Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan from 1949 to 1989, in top secret towns, built for nuclear testing.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Royce Williams, who is eligible to receive the Medal of Honor for his 1952 dogfight against seven Soviet MiGs, which was classified top secret for more than 50 years.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • According to the complaint, Williams worked for the Army between 2010 and 2016 after serving as a contractor and previously enlisting, and held a top secret security clearance.
    — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Authorities conducted a search of Tellis’ home on Saturday and recovered more than 1,000 pages of top secret or secret documents, including some in large trash bags in an unfinished storage room, according to court documents.
    — Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The indictment said Bolton kept handwritten notes of his days and then sent diary-like entries to these relatives using a commercial messaging application, and sent other top secret information to them using his personal email accounts hosted by AOL and Google.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • But under the direction of interior designer Heidi Caillier, the iconic floral was stretched over an expanse of down in a Los Angeles workroom, shipped to a top secret mountain location, and deposited in Kendall Jenner’s new living room.
    — Christine Lennon, Architectural Digest, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Prosecutors said Lee, who has a top secret security clearance, sent technical information on the M1A2 Abrams tank and offered his assistance to the Russian Federation in an exchange online in May.
    — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The top secret agent of CONTROL is a role model for clumsy wannabe Steve Carell, though by the end, Agent 23 is the one throwing an explosive situation into total KAOS.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Ashley Joachim Tellis, an unpaid State Department senior adviser, is facing a felony charge of unlawful retention of national defense information after investigators found more than 1,000 pages of top secret or secret documents at his home Saturday in Vienna, Virginia.
    — Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Brand New Day also stars Jacob Batalon, Tramell Tillman, and Stranger Things star Sadie Sink as a top secret character.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 June 2026

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