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.
  • And part of that effort is to win these key swing state, secretary of state seats.
    Kyung Lah and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Ryan is now the Cabinet secretary in the Biden White House.
    Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2023
  • Hegseth does not deserve to be the secretary of defense.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Out of office, Carter tried to be a freelance secretary of state.
    Jonathan Alter, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The task force finished its review this month and delivered the list to the secretary.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2022
  • Reed is recording secretary of The Rotary Club of Strongsville.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Later he was elected to the state Senate and as secretary of state.
    George Skelton, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
  • The first female secretary of state Madeleine Albright died this week at 84.
    Sam Sussman, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The defense secretary said the first missile strike to down the object over Lake Huron on Sunday missed.
    Justin Gomez, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of State, dies at 84.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Ohio secretary of state spokesman Rob Nichols confirmed Tuesday that Hood filed to run.
    Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Twenty-one years later, the former secretary of state has returned to the Met steps.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 2 May 2022
  • In 2022, Su was confirmed as deputy labor secretary in a close vote.
    Annie Kronenberg, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Neutra built the home in 1953 for his then-secretary Dorothy Serulnic and her husband, George.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Mobile phones buzzed across the hearing room with the alert that one of the firsts among us — Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state — had just died at 84 years old.
    Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Her father sold used cars, and her mother was a secretary.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In the comics, however, she’s of Cheyenne descent and not a wizard, but Strange’s secretary.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
  • Her grandfather had been secretary of state, and her brother was the U.S. ambassador to the U.K.
    Nick Hirshon, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Three of those missing are secretaries in the Navy, officials said.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • If the Legislature declines to do so, the duty falls to the Arizona secretary of state.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The suit named Cole Jester in his capacity as secretary of state as the defendant.
    Arkansas Online, 24 July 2025
  • Records show the parcel is one of two adjoining plots of land owned by Machado and his wife, Tammy, who works in the Sheriff’s Office as a legal secretary.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2025

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