SECRETARY in a Sentence

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141 example sentences for SECRETARY, such as:
1. The secretary led in the client.
2. He acted as secretary to the board.
3. It takes a new secretary one month to break in.
4. The boss asked the secretary to let the client up.
5. The secretary tacked a meeting notice on the bulletin board.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SECRETARY
secretary
 n.  a person who is head of an administrative department of government
 n.  an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization
Classic Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
1  He was accompanied in his travels by his private secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  Every effort should be made to find the secretary, Stangerson, and to ascertain some particulars of the habits of the deceased.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  He is after the secretary Stangerson, who had no more to do with the crime than the babe unborn.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
4  He and his secretary, Mr. Stangerson, had been travelling on the Continent.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
5  When at last he was liberated, it was only to find that Drebber's house was deserted, and that he and his secretary had departed for Europe.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  "I would rather find him private secretary to the First Lord than anything else," was William's only answer, in an undervoice, not meant to reach far, and the subject dropped.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  I have had some confidential talks with Mr. James Wilder, his Grace's secretary.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
8  Beside him stood a very young man, whom I understood to be Wilder, the private secretary.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
9  The nobleman's reply was interrupted by his secretary, who broke in with some heat.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
10  When the nobleman and his secretary had left, my friend flung himself at once with characteristic eagerness into the investigation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
11  In the middle of it was the black figure of the secretary, his head advanced, peering out into the night.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
12  Holmes's cold and inexorable manner showed the secretary that it was useless to argue with him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
13  But my friend's eyes were fixed upon the secretary, who stood by his master's chair.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
14  My friend waited until the door had closed behind the retreating secretary.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
15  He has a secretary who is devoted to his interests, and never budges from the study all day.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  As her private secretary he has access to all her correspondence.
2  The agency sent a replacement for the secretary who resigned.
3  The secretary has a large amount of mail to answer every day.
4  His treatment of his secretary was a blatant example of managerial arrogance.
5  If she finds out he's been playing around with his secretary, there'll be trouble.
6  Sheila found some work as a secretary in an insurance company.
7  He acted as secretary to the board.
8  The secretary tacked a meeting notice on the bulletin board.
9  It takes a new secretary one month to break in.
10  The boss asked the secretary to let the client up.
11  The secretary led in the client.
12  The chief manager has always reposed complete faith in his secretary.
13  The general secretary opened the congress on global warming.
14  The secretary of defense briefed the president on the enemy's strength.
15  A globe-trotting, business-building commerce secretary, he operated on the theory that a good defense is a good offense.