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How to use secretive in a sentence

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The usually secretive agency is best known for its major role in creating the Internet.
Depending upon its position in the horoscope, Mercury is lies or truth, open or secretive, provocative or non-confrontational.
Another winter wonder at the reserve is the normally shy, secretive water rail.
But the courts are ready, willing and able to deal with highly secretive and sensitive evidence.
Although they yard together in spring, during most of the year, moose are solitary secretive animals and very wary of mankind.
Still, there seems to be a kind of secretive admiration of the Amazons by the male myth makers.
It was the more secretive networks of intelligence and escape which forged the first working links with the British or the Free French in London.
Because of their cryptic coloration and secretive habits, ground antbirds are more often heard than seen.
The Spanish Ambassador, a reclusive and secretive man, whom I suspect is light-minded beneath a grave exterior, is very embarrassed by his role.
Fairly secretive visitors among the larger rorquals are the fin whale and its slightly smaller cousin, the sei whale.
Rubber boas are secretive, slow-moving, docile snakes, usually found under logs and rocks in either moist or dry forest habitats.
It was a really secretive process and I wasn't even sure who I was applying to until they asked me to come in for an interview!
Now Anya's a little secretive about her love life, and the rest of us spend a lot of time wondering about what's going on.
J K Rowling has been particularly secretive about the plot, but she has released a couple of short extracts as a teaser.
She was very secretive in the sense that she didn't want her name bandied around the village.
Shepardson said that she thinks that people believe the World Bank is a secretive organization.
Retailers are notoriously secretive about profit margins and the performance of their individual stores.
But for this most secretive and networked of groups things have seldom been better.
All contact is 100 percent confidential but it's not a secretive organisation.
They are secretive and withhold information not only from the rest of the world, but even from their own organizations.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is most secretive in its habits, usually betraying its whereabouts by its sharp call-note of tec or tac.
There was something furtive, secretive, about Adderley's entire mode of life.
It was, he supposed, a woman's way to be secretive in such matters, and he must not blame her.
The soul of hospitality leaped from his face, stern and secretive though it was.
The mountaineer is, by nature, secretive to furtiveness, and under so outright a questioning the visitor stiffened with affront.
Our indigo bunting is as artful and secretive about its nesting-habits as any of the sparrows.
He was a brooding, ingrown man, secretive and sullen, with a streak of wildness which he usually managed to control.
He was not a reserved man, but a secretive, which is quite a different thing.
He has had the reputation of being a man of eccentric habits, secretive and retiring.
His opponent, still with his secretive smile, took up the caster.
Mullah Omar said all talks with the coalition were carried out through the political office and not secretive back channels.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
They don't know a thing about business 'n' never did, and Mirandy's too secretive and contrairy to ask advice.
Her actions when thus engaged were furtive and secretive, like those of some nocturnal animal.
Dear man, he is very earnest, but very slow, and very averse to anything at all secretive.
Cougars are secretive animals, and little was known about them until recently.
For Tehran, is the 'safest' form of confrontation because of its secretive and deniable characteristics.
He had supposed her to be asleep, and the sound of her voice had startled him, though she was given to abrupt explosions of speech after long intervals of secretive silence.
The List, drawn up by a secretive committee of senior Cabinet Office officials and the Queen's top flunkies from Buckingham Palace, has now sparked fury.
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