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Example sentences for "secret agent"

  • Here I was, an old, and presumably experienced, secret agent and I was caught by a simple device.

  • This was the compelling reason that made me ultimately accept his proposal to become a Secret Agent of Germany.

  • Upon observing its position, the waiter--a secret agent on the case--deliberately tipped over a champagne glass that stood within a few inches of the bag.

  • That is the real business of a secret agent.

  • It is true: I am a secret agent;" and he said it proudly.

  • He was a savant by nature; he was a secret agent by choice.

  • He is a secret agent, and not one move have we made that is unknown to him.

  • I fully appreciate and note your loyal report, but it is not woman's sphere to enter our diplomacy, except as a secret agent of our Fatherland.

  • I asked suspiciously, half believing that she might be a secret agent of France.

  • A sensitive person might prefer to call himself a secret agent.

  • It's because I'm a sort of secret agent too.

  • He wouldn't do it if he knew that Hellwig was a--secret agent.

  • Vergennes has sent me a secret agent to inform me that the French court cannot think of making war on England but that she is ready to send five million worth of arms and ammunition to Cap Francais to be thence sent to the colonies.

  • We have an idea that he has been for a good few years now a secret agent of one of the foreign Embassies in London.

  • There is no occupation that fails a man more completely than that of a secret agent of police.

  • Though Mr Verloc’s fatalism accepted his undoing as a secret agent, he had no mind to be utterly ruined, mostly, it must be owned, from regard for his wife.

  • The fellow was a secret agent to my certain knowledge.

  • What an idea have those Americans of sending a secret agent to Canada, and what for?

  • Will we be able to examine the person who examined Mrs. Oswald and to whom apparently she said that she thought he was a secret agent, that Oswald was a secret agent?

  • I think she did remark something about she believed he was a secret agent.

  • No further reasons that you recall in that report as to why she thought he was a secret agent or he might have been a secret agent?

  • Followed by the others, he hastily reached the car; Fuller seated himself beside Dixon and Drevenoff entered the tonneau with the secret agent.

  • You see, I have been employed upon many international occasions, and know the requirements of a secret agent.

  • It is a fortunate thing for me that you are not a secret agent.

  • His visit to Bohemia would have been indeed a delight if a secret agent of the caliber of Herr Hauptman Leo Goritz, or Ober Lieutenant Franz Scheib, could have been sent upon this delicate mission to oppose him.

  • A secret agent doesn't permit himself such a luxury very often," he laughed.

  • Herr Renwick," he replied dryly, "is a secret agent of the Serbian government.

  • Like you, I came to Paris as a secret agent of "the family.

  • He had been for years employed by the Papal Government as a secret agent at the different courts of Europe.

  • I had then to choose between becoming a secret agent of the police, or throwing myself into the Seine.

  • Exactly; nine times out of ten, when a secret agent is caught, his life pays the forfeit.

  • A secret agent; in other words, a diplomatic agent, though I am not officially recognized as such.

  • In the first place, I am what is known as a secret agent of the British government.

  • So you may see why the life of a secret agent is not all roses.

  • Early in the morning of this memorable day when the startling news of the Declaration of War had reached England, a telegram had been handed to the Tsar's secret agent while he was still in bed.

  • It was a Wendel Atomics private police card and it identified him as the kind of secret agent you'd trade in for a snake if you had to have something poisonous on board and were given a free choice in the matter.

  • I'm sure it didn't take Wendel long to discover that you are as intelligent as you are beautiful--both valuable assets in a secret agent.

  • Why should they fear her enough to put a secret agent on her trail?

  • In all probability the ingenious Hartmann already had a secret agent in Joynson's works, but even if he had, he would certainly not be able to discover the secret.

  • He was a middle-aged man, a retired army officer and a perfect linguist, who was a secret agent of the British Government and a great friend of Ray's.

  • To the fact that I recognise you as Josef Scholtz, secret agent of the German Naval Intelligence Department," answered my friend resolutely, closing the door and standing with his back to it.

  • The Baron has been acting as a secret agent of the Kaiser in Paris, but had to fly on account of the recent Ullmo affair at Toulon.

  • She had only made the suggestion as a joke; she was ready to serve the Ministry of War at home in her own small way, but to go abroad, to become a secret agent of Italy in England, was quite another matter.

  • It was this claptrap appeal to her loyalty that had caused her to become a secret agent of the Under-Secretary, which had now resulted, she knew, in the disgrace of an innocent man.

  • That is why a pretty woman is so successful as a secret agent.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secret agent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another city; apply himself; assist him; cast away; common stock; dinner speech; felt the; head full; international arbitration; match for; secret agent; secret agents; secret ballot; secret doctrine; secret entrance; secret from; secret places; secret police; secret session; secret society; secret vice; secretary general; separated from; special session; still have; strict adherence