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

It’s a different world here in Santa Cruz, an easier place to seclude yourself, to find some anonymity.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2018

While we should not intentionally expose the youth to temptation in order to prove his strength of resistance, neither should we, on the other hand, endeavor to seclude him from all chance of dangerous temptation.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)