How to Use secretary in a Sentence

secretary

noun

• He was the club's secretary.
• He is a junior secretary at the embassy.
• He works as a legal secretary.
• You can set up an appointment with my secretary.
• Ryan is now the Cabinet secretary in the Biden White House.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2023
• But that did not appear to stop the campaign of criticism aimed at the secretary.
  — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• Gwen thinks when a legal secretary eyes her in horror and leaves.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2023
• To see what's on your ballot, visit the Ohio secretary of state's office at voteohio.gov.
  — Enquirer Staff, The Enquirer, 1 May 2023
• In 2022, Su was confirmed as deputy labor secretary in a close vote.
  — Annie Kronenberg, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
• Three of those missing are secretaries in the Navy, officials said.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• The treasury secretary is on the back end of her second visit to China in nine months to meet with state officials.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
• William’s new private secretary, Ian Patrick, took up his role only two weeks ago.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
• In 1964, he was hired as a top aide to an assistant secretary of defense, John T. McNaughton.
  — Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• As the church secretary, Davis had authority to pay bills and expenses incurred by the church and had access to the church’s bank accounts.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 8 Apr. 2023
• By then, there had been three Black Cabinet secretaries.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• The secretary said the passenger bridges are integral to getting people on and off their flights in a timely manner.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 15 Feb. 2024
• Still available for purchase: phone cases emblazoned with the secretary’s face and the Huawei logo.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• The French foreign minister was standing beside Blinken at the time and expressly condemned the strike, but the secretary was much more muted.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024
• If that number is reached, the DHS secretary would have the authority to effectively close the border.
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
• Thurston, who is the current secretary of state, is the lone Republican to announce his intention to run for the office, which will be up for election again in 2026.
  — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• But the former president and one-time secretary of state did say one of the region’s biggest debates wasn’t truly intractable.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
• It is made up of nearly same members as the Land Board except the state controller acts as the board’s secretary rather than a member, and the board does not include the state schools superintendent.
  — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 9 Feb. 2024
• Some secretaries of state reject the idea that Trump can be disqualified outright.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• The Stanford law grad was initially offered jobs as a legal secretary.
  — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2023
• On the heels of the Colorado ruling, the secretary of state in Maine determined that Trump is barred from holding office and should be excluded from the primary ballot.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
• But Poland insisted on a candidate from the Baltic states because there had already been two Nordic secretaries general in a row.
  — Chris Megerian, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2023
• The school secretary doubles as a bus driver and a vegetable grower offers horseshoe repair.
  — Amy Taxin, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2023
• And neither Nelson, a secretary, nor her fiancé, who does maintenance work for local school systems, can work from home.
  — Abha Bhattarai The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2023
• News of Bryant's retirement plans come a week after Mike Mills, secretary of the department, resigned from his position.
  — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 10 June 2023
• The director is also the secretary of the Judicial Conference.
  — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024