How to Use secular in a Sentence

secular

adjective

• Both secular and religious institutions can apply for the funds.
• There are some secular longer-term trends that could help the stock, as well.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Way too much twang for my taste in both the sacred and secular carols.
  — Luis Melgar, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• The secular schools don't even put the questions on the table.
  — Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• All that adds up to something that feels like secular gospel, complete with the stomps.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 22 June 2018
• The theater is a secular church.
  — Lou Fancher, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
• The song blends the spiritual and the secular and in many ways is a prayer.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
• Its secular cast was not its only imprint.
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• New York is a city of secular churches—and for three months the pews have been empty.
  — Elias Williams, National Geographic, 15 June 2020
• This growth is one of the clearest secular trends in global finance.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• More than half of these funds went to secular non-profits here in San Diego.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 June 2017
• But the city banned its appearance, saying no non-secular flags could be flown.
  — Fox News, 16 July 2019
• The colony’s bishop, Peters, hopes to hide all this from the secular world.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• The reader may wonder how much of this book is true, in the most secular and least inspired sense of the word.
  — Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
• Stern grew up in a secular family.
  — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
• Even at secular private schools, there would be hurdles to overcome.
  — Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
• This is a problem in the eyes of a certain sort of secular liberal.
  — Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• But the song was a hit across the board, and received airplay on secular radio stations as well.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 14 Apr. 2020
• In part the response has pitted a religious right against a more secular left.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2022
• This is a beast created by secular Jews.
  — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
• Elsewhere in the movement, there was open talk of moving past him for more secular reasons.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2022
• France might be an adamantly secular state, but its pastry shops like to flirt with religion.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
• France might be an adamantly secular state, but its pastry shops like to flirt with religion.
  — Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
• The firm cited lower pricing power and weak secular trends for the call.
  — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
• Gospel music has been showing up in more and more secular genres lately.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• After years of singing in church, Clayton dipped her toe in secular music.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2022
• Khalid’s father was secular, which was unusual for an Iraqi at the time.
  — WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
• Real estate has lost its prime engine—not just in a cyclical sense but also in a secular one.
  — James Berman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• The 1987 crash was in the midst of a massive secular bill market.
  — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Here are the details of sacred and secular objects at the center of the royal event.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023