Moderately dry, as champagne

Usage examples of sec.

Ryan bolstered his blaster, seeing that the double sec doors into the section were firmly closed.

Seated directly behind him, General Grisham held several folders in case they were needed, but the Sec Def waved them off.

Though briefing without the aid of notes or Power Point slides, the Sec Def was speaking quickly.

The Sec Def had been complaining about the poor quality of human intelligence collection at the CIA for years and as far as he was concerned, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, signed by the President on 17 December 2004, and the creation of the DNI had made things worse instead of better.

Apparently your experts at Homeland Security think the Sec Def and the Chairman are too vulnerable.

Prague ordered the pilot, who expertly sideslipped his heliTurcotte watched as the large disk that Prague had called copter so that they were now flying sideways, with the nose Bouncer Three made an abrupt jump move to the right, of the aircraft--and the chain gun hung off the skid- changed directions just short of 180 degrees in a split sec- pointed toward the pickup.

HITCHING UP THEIR PANTS, two sec men walked from the lav of the Shiloh ville situated near the stone quarry when one of them stopped in his tracks.

A group of nondescript government vehicles had been waiting on the tarmac for the sec retary of state and her entourage.

Davichaux expected it to be the taciturn Kentuckian, Nate Ruell, behind the wheel, with a couple of sec men riding shotgun.

I would survive on out-of-date pate and vacuum-packed saucisson sec while I worked on my poem.

Now he relaxed, knowing that he still had four rounds left in the weapon, knowing that all the sec men, and the unlucky driver, were dead or dying, fingers scrabbling in the pools of bloodied mud, limbs moving under and over each other.

He stirred up constant intrigues among sec men and toadies, then conducted bloody purges of those he considered the most dangerous.

The sec men and high-level toadies sitting around the long table jumped to their feet when he entered.

Some sec men and toadies were crouched at one end of the patio, doing something along the steel-pipe railing.

The handful of very important toadies cowered on the couch, and nervous sec men were pacing with their blasters at the ready.