reclusive

How To Use reclusive In A Sentence

• But I was going through a reclusive and non-communicative phase, and his efforts to talk to me, to establish genuine communication, were met with a stony and moody silence.
• lived an unsocial reclusive life
• After he retired in the 1980s, he became increasingly reclusive. Times, Sunday Times
• The hermit, the bachelor uncle, the reclusive genius, all have their place; I think it was once more recognised than today, when everyone is supposed to be good at relationships even if they're no good at anything else.
• An increasingly reclusive figure, he was by this stage plagued by money worries and seemingly in thrall to plastic surgery. The Sun
• The reclusive teenager was determined to tan his pallid body, but did not want to expose his feeble frame to others.
• To study these reclusive animals, he wades barefoot through the swamps of Venezuela's llanos wetlands ecosystem in search of his water-dwelling subjects.
• Feinberg, the reclusive founder of Cerberus Capital Management, the big buyout firm.
• He has grown reclusive in recent years, seemingly unaware that he is no longer under house arrest.
• Living reclusively in a rented cottage in nearby Nunnington, they have both withdrawn from community life.