Sentence examples for engaged secretly from inspiring English sources

Lucy confides in Elinor that she and Edward have been engaged secretly for five years, dashing Elinor's hopes of a future with him.

(Part of their shock was due to the fact that Margaret's rumored fiancé was actually secretly engaged to her sister Nell, who was in the process of secretly dumping him for the middle-aged secretary of the Treasury).

A few months later they became secretly engaged.

I'm here because Pinky's daughter got secretly engaged.

Charles goes to live in the West Indies, secretly engaged to marry Eugenie on his return.

Eventually, Dorothy confessed that she was secretly engaged to a young banker from Grand Rapids, Lemuel Hillman.

Some accounts say they were secretly engaged for as long as three years.

Then Hillary comes to see them, announcing that she and the president are secretly engaged.

Then Volante's normal-size daughter, a beauty to whom Beppo is secretly engaged, returns with her university diploma.

The report, buttressed by evidence not previously disclosed, concluded that Iran had been secretly engaged in behaviors that suggested that it was seeking to construct a nuclear weapon.

The C.I.A. has always had a paramilitary branch known as the Special Activities Division, which secretly engaged in the kinds of operations more routinely carried out by Special Operations troops.