seclude

Example Sentences

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While some may find the prepackaged meals convenient, she says they encourage people to seclude themselves in their roomettes and discourage one-on-one time with other travelers at the dining table.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2019

“I realised that if I was able to seclude myself and rest, the gentle high would progress into a dreamlike state where I would experience visions,” she writes in Period Power.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2019

At one point, he suggests that to help make up her mind she go away from London, where they live, and seclude herself in a cottage in Wales.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 22, 2018

She suggested he seclude himself at Yaddo, the artists’ colony in upstate New York.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2017

Nothing but clergy could us two seclude, No Scotch was ever like a bishop’s feud.

From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)