How to use "privy" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "privy" in popular movie and book plots

  • Howard Carter returns as a featured character, as the Emersons are privy to his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamon.  - Tomb of the Golden Bird
  • This was an illegal marriage, and Dhaniram was blackmailing her, as he was privy to this information.  - Kanoon
  • The two agree that no one else should be privy to the combination, and that each one will not gain access without the other being present.  - The Long Con
  • It is hinted that she and Antipatros may have been privy to the assassination.  - Fire from Heaven
  • The outlines of Flagship are confessed to Burr by a drunken Harry Palfrey, privy to it all but now stricken by conscience.  - The Night Manager
  • We, as the reader are privy to Saint Dane and Bobby's struggle against each other.  - The Merchant of Death
  • Angry with all that he has been made privy to and how it has come about, Ludlow shoots and kills Wander.  - Street Kings
  • Charles, in a furious rage, accused the king of being privy to the sacrilege, and caused him to be treated as a prisoner.  - Quentin Durward
  • She becomes privy to their struggles to save their land from Earl Giddens (David Patrick Kelly), representative of a coal mining company.  - Songcatcher
  • Butters, however, is not privy to the plan and greets Cartman as he passes by in a state of despair.  - The Death of Eric Cartman
  • Vanderbrouck is dropped in a privy and Rose's husband, like the pimps, is shot dead and thrown in the river.  - Coup de Torchon
  • During Tyrion's escape, he strangles Shae and kills Tywin in his privy before fleeing Westeros.  - A Storm of Swords
  • We are privy to a conversation between Cross and O’Brien, reminiscing about the war and about Martha.  - The Things They Carried
  • She soon becomes privy to a plan formulated by the Lovers to raise a mythical sea creature known as the avanc.  - The Scar
  • Alice soon begins to fear that mr Eddy is privy to their affair and concocts a scheme to rob her friend Andy and leave town.  - Lost Highway (film)
  • In return for a promise of freedom, Kent informs the warden (Lewis Stone) of the attempt, though he is not privy to the details.  - The Big House (1930 film)

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