How To Use Seclusion In A Sentence

Jimmy Connors is not Howard Hughes, but has spent a good deal longer in seclusion.
Going into a somewhat different trajectory, specifically to continue a line of speculation from a previous post on an African bridge house: can someone be fundamentally altered — like the corn they're cultivating to produce cancer cures — while living quasi-permanently in flourescent-lit dampness and hermetic seclusion, detached from the vagaries of weather, time and natural pollination, amidst pure geology? Cave Pharming
But, more than the excitement, the sheer seclusion and beauty that a quiet alpine ski run can give is something rarely experienced.
In about eight miles of Lancaster, there are about 25,000 Amish living in seclusion.
Icons were painted by faithful painters - usually monks - in monastic seclusion.

A lyrical, a scholarly, a fastidious mind might have used seclusion and solitude to perfect its powers.
The veiling of women by scarf or hood, and their seclusion, became a mark of honour and social status in cities of the Middle East and Mediterranean world in the centuries before the Common Era.
He's a strapping, robust he-man living a life of seclusion with other retired adventurers in Kenya, who handily dispatches a group of assassins.
Weather has also contributed to the seclusion and peculiarity of the Azores - stormy winter seas often prevent access to the smaller islands even by air for days at a time.
In these hot damp climates the venereal requirements and reproductive powers of the female greatly exceed those of the male; and hence the dissoluteness of morals would be phenomenal, were it not obviated by seclusion, the sabre and the revolver. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
They had for a long series of years been debarred from the privilege of religious worship, and as there was reason to fear that a continued neglect of divine ordinances would draw down upon them the judgments of offended heaven, they begged permission to go three days 'journey into the desert -- a place of seclusion -- where their sacrificial observances would neither suffer interruption nor give umbrage to the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Having removed some specimens for analysis, the team took care to reseal the entrance with boulders, thus erasing all evidence of the discovery and restoring the burial place to its original seclusion.
Such interest is anathema to Sun Wen, a quietly spoken intellectual who enjoys writing poetry in seclusion.
He's been living in seclusion since he retired from acting.
Therefore your seclusion is the wisest way in the world to elbow off old Winter and welcome back the sunshine of May. Letter 256
The treatments comprised straightjackets, seclusion, insulin shock and electric shock treatment, that was it.
She retreats upward, seeking the seclusion of her rooftop lair.
They stayed at a friend's beach house and enjoyed ten days of peace and seclusion.
These partys are normaly most popular in a seclusionist government and are opposed by them in every way. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
After being with a tour group all week I was glad to return to the seclusion of my own home.
They stayed at a friend's beach house and enjoyed ten days of peace and seclusion.
Its slopes are relatively untrodden, making it ideal for hikers who'd rather earn seclusion than bragging rights.
These girls were kept in tenebrous seclusion, suspended between life and death, until marriage.
Just a few months ago you were in seclusion on a mountaintop with small goats keeping you company.
Now the few ancestral mansions embower themselves in an aristocratic seclusion of trees and vines that shut them in with their birds and flowers and sunshine, and the Van Ness Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
Otherwise it'll probably be quite a while before I'm able to listen to it in seclusion and/or on headphones to really listen to the words. Skittledog: In absentia
For example, women do not practice purdah, or seclusion.
Family spokesperson Stephanie Ruscigno said Friday night that Robinson is in seclusion, recovering from major surgery and suffering greatly from the loss of her only son. Heroes or Villains?
Under his reign his atempts to withdraw back to only francistown and maun were blocked by the congress but his seclusionist efforts weren't suported by the general populace and in the 2003 elections he was replaced by Ian Mmusi (Not a relative of Peter Mmusi) of the Botswana National Front that advecated expansionist polices. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
As if it wasn’t enough that I was validating my own seclusion from my friends, having some cute young thing validate your singledom was a little bit more than I could handle. Moschikat Diary Entry
Furthermore, the seclusion of women within marriage and family life allows them to buffer the psychological shocks and reverses associated with industrial life.
Like the boozer who just spent a glorious 28 days kept away from hooch in rehab, you'll eventually be thrust into the so-called real world, where you'll have to use whatever coping skills you learned in seclusion.
This is a very extraordinary thing, because the family really has been in seclusion for the past 24 hours.
But her last vestige of power had departed, her most loyal followers had been induced to abandon her cause after the defection of the kalif himself, and Sobeyah, who had been the most powerful of all the Moorish sultanas of Cordova, was now forced in humiliation to withdraw from active participation in worldly affairs and to spend the few remaining years of her life in strict seclusion in a lonely cloister. Women of the Romance Countries
Blue was born in valley, no place, no bright bright color and fragrance, can express not seek to make oneself known, lived in seclusion in the Holy Spirit alone lofty sentiment.
He lives in self-imposed seclusion, in an elaborate primitivity which is often described in moving terms that are almost convincing of actual A History of China
Moreover, there was the seclusion of the island, and the sense - from this almost hyperborean perspective - of Edinburgh and London being distant, southern cities, veritable tropical hotbeds of steamy licentiousness. Jura Duty
Let us not forget that it was the NYT who mocked Robert Goddard into seclusion and secrecy by offering their wisdom that the premise of a rocket working in a vacuum with nothing to react against was absurd, and thus Goddard "seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily to high school students. New York Times Weighs In on Bolden - NASA Watch
These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclusion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, besides, so thoroughly cleared off his ill – humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield. Emma
Women went from being autonomous individuals to subservient beings living in seclusion.
So would that make me some right wing, seclusionist nutjob whose only ideal it is to isolate my children and family from the evils of public school? Christine Escobar: Joy Behar, I Have a Question For You: When Will the Left Finally Get it On Home Education?
Contrast his public services with his public and private vices, and see what he is -- the despised of the whole world, eking out a miserable existence in hermitical seclusion with a woman of ill-fame. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest
Soon he's disinherited, cast out of his ancestral home and off to live in seclusion in a Paris warehouse.
Reason twice turned his back on the razzamatazz of the art world to paint, read and meditate in relative seclusion. Times, Sunday Times
For as long as I can remember, there is a beautiful altar cut from the rocky face of a heavily wooded hill, which shelters this place and gives it its air of seclusion and mystery.
They'll polish their acts in seclusion before weekend rehearsals at Staples Center, where the Grammy Awards will be staged at 8 p.m. live ET/tape-delay PT on CBS. Grammy nominees get in tune for Sunday's live telecast
She liked to sunbathe in the seclusion of her own garden.
This is implicit when, in the Restoration Scene, he spies the young lovers playing chess in their bower, working out - in seclusion since their love is private - their own destinies as well, or as ill, as they are able.
We who feel that the real is unattainable, or at least ungraspable, for us does salvation lie only in seclusion, in retreat, like a star abandoning its constellation?
She retired to her native Tiverton in 1801 and lived in seclusion until her death in 1809.
I love the way the topography lends itself to creating secret hideaways where guests can sit down and enjoy the views in seclusion.
They began to spend more time in secretive seclusion from the rest of the Councils. WATER TRILOGY # 1: ASCENSION
How touchingly expressive are the succeeding lines, wrung from a heart which all the trials and temptations and buffetings of the world could not render worldly; which, amid a thousand follies and errors of the head, still retained its childlike innocence; and which, doomed to struggle on to the last amid the din and turmoil of the metropolis, had ever been cheating itself with a dream of rural quiet and seclusion: The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
Nowhere does the night seem more "stilly," or the sense of seclusion more profound, than in the middle of the broad bay on a midsummer night before or after the theatre-goers have crossed. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
The University of Oklahoma Press is to be commended for bringing this wonderful text out of seclusion and putting together a truly fine publication.
The degree and kind (the actual veiling or seclusion) of purdah observed by women has varied across time and place and from family to family and is also related to class status.
A few old trees, clustered together near the castle, gave some relief to the air of desolate seclusion; but yet the page, while he gazed upon a building so sequestrated, could not but feel for the situation of a captive Princess doomed to dwell there, as well as for his own. The Abbot
Under every creed, monachal austerity and seclusion had been attempted.
They can simply say something such as ‘I am of the Cloister, and my cloister is of deep seclusion.’
After a day in seclusion, relatives of executed American hostage Paul Johnson Jr. released a statement.
Yellow lily-buds and leathery lily-pads tessellate its surface, and the white water-lilies -- pale, proud Ladies of Shalott -- bare their virgin breasts to the sun in the seclusion of its distant reaches. Literary and Social Essays
Deafness is a catalyst that pushes many elderly people into seclusion, isolation, and even senility.
The initiates themselves must remain in seclusion during the sometimes grueling training.
The word zenana," replied Mrs. Thurston, "strictly means women's apartment, but as it is generally used by us it means the houses of the high caste gentlemen, where their wives live in great seclusion. A Missionary Twig
Indeed, the bad name that proverbially hangs the dog has already been given to the one under consideration, for bibliomania is older in the technology of this kind of nosology than dipsomania, which is now understood to be an almost established ground for seclusion, and deprivation of the management of one's own affairs. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
No longer were social parties the old heraldic solemnities [Footnote 4] enjoined by red letters in the almanac, in which the chief objects were to discharge some arrear of ceremonious debt, or to ventilate old velvets, or to _apricate_ and refresh old gouty systems and old traditions of feudal ostentation, which both alike suffered and grew smoke-dried under too rigorous a seclusion. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
They stayed at a friend's beach house and enjoyed ten days of peace and seclusion.
Traditionally, the custom of purdah (seclusion of women) was not followed.
Here he lived much of the rest of his life in semi-seclusion, though he was at times a member of parliament, a magistrate, and verderer of the New Forest.
They found such seclusion most satisfactory on these turbulent days of movement, except for occasional visits to see that no blighted trooper was trying to beat a fellow for his "possie" in the hold. The Tale of a Trooper
After being with a tour group all week I was glad to return to the seclusion of my own home.
We thank thee, O God, that the South has not kept pace with New York's super-estheticism -- that when our women find themselves in an "interesting condition" they seek the seclusion of the home instead of telephoning for a reporter and a chalk artist and exploiting their intumescence in the public prints. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
And it's going to be quite a buzz because the twins have been in seclusion and they have been out of the public eye.
These monks live in seclusion, and study the ways of the giant squid.
Above the banking hall is a brick-clad volume containing cellular conference rooms and offices which require a greater degree of seclusion.
I led him to a pew halfway down the aisle which gave us comparative seclusion. GOODBYE CURATE
They were supposed to quietly live out their lives in sedate seclusion. Archive 2006-04-01
It's all so-and-so happening upon someone in woodland seclusion, playing in a pool, or wrestling on the hearthrug.
Cpl Hassoun's relatives in Utah have been in seclusion since the report of his death was issued on Saturday.
He's been living in seclusion since he retired from acting.
Weather has also contributed to the seclusion and peculiarity of the Azores - stormy winter seas often prevent access to the smaller islands even by air for days at a time.
He's been living in seclusion since he retired from acting.
While in seclusion she was clothed from the waist down, so that her upper body was exposed. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
They stayed at a friend's beach house and enjoyed ten days of peace and seclusion.
Gorgeous models he met through the magazine, high priced call girls with sophisticated sexual prowess he had brought them all to the seclusion of his apartment for a steamy evening of sex.
The murders, kidnapping, dumping of bodies, the seclusion of mortal remains, extortion and bank robberies by the Provisional Movement will be described as 'justified' by the perpetrators if their movement is given any level of support in the ballot box. Jean McConville's family campaign against Gerry Adams
Little tarmac roads wound between the trees and little front and rear gardens were packed with small bushes that gave each property a feeling of seclusion.
In the seclusion of a monastery, a small group of Carmelite nuns tailor their own multi-layered habits - chocolate brown in colour, their wimples are pristine white, and the overlying veil is black.
The _Romans_ differed materially from the Greeks and the oriental nations in one point with regard to their treatment of women; namely, in never keeping them in a state of seclusion from the society of men: but the husbands were very incommunicative: and it seems at least to have been an Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II
Extremely wealthy, he spent much of the 1980s in seclusion on the Isle of Man, rather than do the usual round of TV game and chat shows, though he made something of a return to prominence in the 1990s, looking hale and trim. Sir Norman Wisdom obituary
The thing that drove him into seclusion was his failure to find anywhere a return of the warmth that flowed from him.
For the VAs who work in seclusion, in their own office, these concepts could be of benefit to them, of course they would need to have a laptop, even if it was just for one day a week or month it would get them out and working in a different environment and share time with others. April 2009
Even in the strictest seclusion of the, alas! seldom invaded privacy of his chambers Mr. Pryme never forgot that he was a barrister-at-law. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
As he grows older Frenhofer retreats into seclusion, devoting his last years to a single work that no one has seen and that he cannot bring himself to complete.
I believe that the son speaks for so many sons and daughters out there, living out this nightmare in seclusion.
Just offshore from the Stromsholmen centre lies the island of Kvitholmen, which harbours yet more facilities for divers who want a little more seclusion.
Although the truth of his extravagant feelings is proved by his death, and though when he digs up a treasure he spurns the wealth which seems to tempt him, we yet see distinctly enough that the vanity of wishing to be singular, in both the parts that he plays, had some share in his liberal self-forgetfulness, as well as in his anchoritical seclusion. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
Under his reign his atempts to withdraw back to only francistown and maun were blocked by the congress but his seclusionist efforts weren't suported by the general populace and in the 2003 elections he was replaced by Ian Mmusi (Peter Mmusi's disinherited son) of the Botswana National Front that advecated expansionist polices. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
She liked to sunbathe in the seclusion of her own garden.
Without security, regardless of their legitimate rights, women will be fearful and will choose to remain in seclusion.
The emeer answered: "As to us, we are of mankind; and as to you, there is no doubt but that ye are of the genies, because of your seclusion in this mountain that is separated from the world, and because of the greatness of your make. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales
During this period of seclusion he became deeply interested in magic, alchemy, astrology, cabalism, and all that sort of thing. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.
The bhagats, who live in stark seclusion from the rest of the village, are said to possess occult powers, which enable them to exercise metaphysical control acquired by years of yogic penance, tantra and tatrak vidya.
Just offshore from the Stromsholmen centre lies the island of Kvitholmen, which harbours yet more facilities for divers who want a little more seclusion.
The veiling of women by scarf or hood, and their seclusion, became a mark of honour and social status in cities of the Middle East and Mediterranean world in the centuries before the Common Era.
Now he lives in seclusion in Kent, a practising magistrate who writes frequently for the Tablet.
The prioress is another respectable person, coy and simple, with dainty fingers, small mouth, and clean attire, -- a refined sort of a woman for that age, ornamented with corals and brooch, so stately as to be held in reverence, yet so sentimental as to weep for a mouse caught in a trap: all characteristic of a respectable, kind-hearted lady who has lived in seclusion. Beacon Lights of History
Living on an island usually means living in seclusion, the water on all sides disconnecting inhabitants from the rest of the world and all of modernity.
The family here in Utah has stayed in seclusion throughout its ordeal, shutting the door to the news media.
To guarantee complete seclusion guests are encouraged to fly a red flag outside their cottage!
Located in an area of great natural beauty, this tastefully restored farm cottage will appeal to those seeking peace and seclusion.
Look at the recent case of the virulently homophobic state senator Ashburn of California, who is now in seclusion after having been arrested for DUI while in the company of a young man he met at a Sacramento gay bar. Think Progress » Rove Decries Dirty Tactics That Target Politicians’ Families
She lived in seclusion with her husband on their farm in Panama.
She lived in seclusion with her husband on their farm in Panama.
Natural granite stone walls provide seclusion, and the area has raised flowerbeds and a rockery stocked with a variety of plants and shrubs.
All day Saturday, tensions ran high as the president alternated intense cabinet meetings with bouts of seclusion.
Cows have their counter-strategies, leaving the group to live in seclusion when they are calving.
Unless you're living in seclusion out near those nukes that went offline in Wyoming, you know the Giants 'can finally win the World Series as San Franciscans. Ben Mangan: EARN Savers are Giants
These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclusion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, besides, so thoroughly cleared off his ill-humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield. Emma
The resort's seclusion attracted him more than the chance to see any celebrity personalities.
Blowitz almost burst into tears of gluttony at the sight of it, and stuffed himself to ecstasy, going into raptures at each arriving course, and reproaching me for my apparent lack of appetite; in fact I was sharp-set, but ate and drank in moderation, for my mind was on the ladies 'sleeping-coach where I supposed la Kralta would be dining in anonymous seclusion; you don't want to be bloated when the charge is sounded. Watershed
Khama stood for presidency and won with the BDP under is 4 year term botswana became more seclusionist withrawing from the borders to control only administration zones 1,6 and 7 having withdrawn from zone 2 in the last year and the other zones following doomsday. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
In idyllic seclusion he is watched over by preening geishas and the resort's manager, Mr Komatsu, as he samples many dishes, including the vilest of all abominations - the Mountain Potato.
This group is headed by the Botswana Unity Party, Political partys in this group tend to belive in a middle line between the seclusionist and Expansionist viewpoints. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
Those "Tea Baggers", "Birthers", and other right wingers are typically paranoids who live in seclusion while listening to Right Wing Radio and watching Fox News .. 'Tea Party Express' trucks on with tour aimed at health care
Bonnie Hanssen has been in seclusion since the arrest of her husband.
All day Saturday, tensions ran high as the president alternated intense cabinet meetings with bouts of seclusion.
He lives in relative seclusion in his enormous Swiss chalet, protected by servants and a devoted wife.
Seek shade and seclusion in your own gorgeous garden after examining these bowered garden ideas.
We were there during the off season when there are few if any tourists there and unless one is especially interested in butterfly migration, I recommend the off season since part of the charm of this place is its seclusion. DELIVERENCE
In a descriptive study, they examined the causes that patients and nurses gave for the initiation of restraint and seclusion.
He never saw people, they were hidden away, forced into seclusion lest they infect, or shock with their wounds. THE OPEN DOOR
In spite of the extremity of her seclusion she was sane.
The house is set off the road and offers plenty of seclusion and privacy for its occupants.
There's more to Mull than Tobermory, but if you visit Glengorm Castle you'll get the best of both worlds: incredible beauty and seclusion, all within easy reach of the chocolate-box port.
This charmed seclusion was especially grateful to my friend, and his sense of it reached its climax, I remember, on one of the last of such occasions and while we sat in fascinated flanerie over against the sturdy back of Saint John's. A Passionate Pilgrim
A certain amount of seclusion for contemplation and introspection might be beneficial.
In cases of trigamy we have accepted a seclusion of five years, not by the canons, but following the precept of our predecessors. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Great Bear himself, very polite, speaking excellent Cherokee ( "since we are alone," he said), very recognizant of the merits of Amoyah, -- the fame of which indeed was represented to have resounded through the remotest seclusions of the ursine realm, -- fiction though it all obviously was, the man of facts could no longer endure this magnification of his rival. The Frontiersmen
In its isolation, seclusion, and self-reliant independence, Col. Lloyd's plantation resembles what the baronial domains were, during the middle ages in Europe.
living in campestral seclusion
But in spite of the extremity of her seclusion she was sane. DANSVILLE
Those with the least to reveal are the ones most interested in seclusion.
After the consummation of the marriage, there is a period of seclusion until the young couple re-enters society.
Tree-huggers will relish their seclusion at two ancient forests on both coasts, while water-lovers will delight in untamed Texan rafting adventures, snorkeling at an underwater Floridian marine park, or whale-watching on a Canadian cape. Top 10 National Parks Without Crowds | Impact Lab
While the Crusaders had to unriddle the unfamiliar customs that kept women of the Middle East in seclusion, the women they left behind in charge of their estates revelled in an unaccustomed independence.
So the Dickinson camp - that is, in the second generation, carried on by Martha Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's niece - presented a sentimental image of a pathetic Emily Dickinson in a dimity apron who had been in love all her life with one master, one man, and had gone into seclusion because she couldn't have him. Biography Speculates Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy
A weather-worn Vauxhall thirty landaulette was awaiting us, and bumped us for six or seven miles over by-paths and lanes which, in spite of their natural seclusion, were deeply rutted and showed every sign of heavy traffic. When The World Screamed
At the same time, authorities couldn't hold such a prominent figure in seclusion for interrogation indefinitely.
Sallust has chosen this word in preference to the common _templa_ or _aedes_, because it conveys the idea of antiquity, sanctity, and mysterious seclusion, which is also contained in the word _fanum_. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
The modern bibliophiles who know what it is to revel in the enjoyment of a goodly library, luxuriant in costly bindings and rich in bibliographical rarities, who are fully susceptible to the delights and exquisite sensibilities of that sweet madness called bibliomania, will readily comprehend the multiplied pleasures of that early and illustrious bibliophile in the seclusion of Auckland Palace; he there ardently applied his energies and wealth to the accumulation of books; and whilst engaged in this pleasing avocation, let us endeavor to catch a glimpse of him. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
Externally the building is approached through a lychgate, which enhances the feeling of seclusion, and a beautifully simple porch.
To-morrow I seek the seclusion of the convent at Park Square -- isn't _seclusion_ good? The Art of Disappearing
For holidays, I prefer the relative seclusion of the countryside.

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