seclude

Example Sentences

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Gore and Bush were able to seclude themselves at home, refraining from public comment for days on end.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2020

“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

I had never done any thing to seclude me from an Establishment in my own Country.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von