How to Use in seclusion in a Sentence

in seclusion

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  • Rescued by Carpathia, Ismay spent the rest of the trip in seclusion.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2022
  • As the world begins to emerge from over a year in seclusion, the watchmaker has revealed two immense projects it’s been keeping up its sleeve.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 16 June 2021
  • But at last report, Princess Haya remains in seclusion and is said not to be taking anything for granted.
    — Joshua Hammer, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2022
  • And the tiny Tuscola district in Douglas County put five students in seclusion a total of 122 times, the data shows.
    — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Though a prolific poet, Dickinson was not a public figure and in fact spent much of her adult life in seclusion.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
  • At the center of a treed clearing, hidden from the wondrous skylines that defined Glacier, Kishenehn Ranger Station sat shrouded in seclusion.
    — Cassidy Randall, Longreads, 16 Feb. 2023
  • For decades the nuns quietly lived in seclusion, spending their days in contemplative prayer and doing chores, from cooking to cleaning to making their own clothes.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
  • Once one of the most photographed people in the world, supermodel Linda Evangelista has been living in seclusion for almost five years.
    — Jason Sheeler, PEOPLE.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns, said Matar’s father lives there but has been in seclusion since the attack.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
  • For centuries this has been a land of hermits and religious retreats -- and Italy is still full of secluded monasteries and abbeys where religious folk have lived in seclusion.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Businesses like the Carmonas’ sit at the forefront, thriving off an eagerness to focus on appearances after up to two years in seclusion.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
  • That is in part because our primary source of information, Princess Pakize, having grown up confined to her palace, is now forced, for her own safety, to spend most of the crucial year in seclusion.
    — Steven G. Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • While lawmakers debated changes, state officials adopted new rules that require schools to report to the state when a student is put in seclusion or restraint.
    — Jennifer Smith Richards, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2021
  • Working in seclusion for long periods is likely to take a toll on employees and companies have also taken note of this issue.
    — Sankar Bora, Quartz India, 2 July 2020
  • Today, however, Danny lives in seclusion in a remote cabin in Vermont.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 20 Apr. 2022
  • With some distance from the 2016 election, the possibility of a new Tumblr has emerged, this one less fixated on the policing of discourse and more interested in finding community in seclusion.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Her relationships with her partners don’t exist in seclusion, but in the community, meaning that each connection is in conversation with the others.
    — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • What remains most in one’s memory after an immersion in Keaton are the quiet, uncanny shots of him in seclusion, his sensitive face registering his own inwardness.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The senators asked for documentation on policies for restraining children or placing them in seclusion, the training provided to employees and the number of maltreatment and abuse incidents over the past five years.
    — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 22 July 2022
  • Her relationships with her partners don’t exist in seclusion, but in community, meaning that each connection is in conversation with the others.
    — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • While Baffert stayed in seclusion in California, an emotional McCarthy cut his news conference short with a phrase that is probably now familiar to casual horse racing fans everywhere.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2021
  • Staff were filmed bullying patients, using unnecessary restraint and keeping patients in seclusion for inappropriately long periods of time.
    — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023

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