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Example sentences for "secluded"

Lexicographically close words:
seche; sechen; sechs; seck; seclude; secluding; seclusion; seco; secoli; secolo
  1. In that year the long ousted and secluded prince, Gian Galeazzo, died under circumstances more than suspicious.

  2. Sad to relate, this secluded spot, where untrammelled nature has reigned supreme for centuries, is beginning to show signs of ugly modernity, and bathing cabins are encroaching on its encircling belt of shingle.

  3. On its front or west side rise the Berwyn Mountains; on the east, the Fron Fawr; and the whole is so enveloped in beautiful foliage that it is perhaps one of the most enchantingly secluded places in the kingdom.

  4. He loved her—if a passion so selfish, so madly jealous, was worthy of the name of love; but knowing that he never possessed her heart, he watched her closely and secluded her from every eye.

  5. This covering of the head could be dispensed with only in places where they were secluded from public view.

  6. The other Apostles apparently took their wives with them on their apostolic journeys, and may have found them useful in gaining access for the Gospel to the secluded women of Eastern and Greek cities.

  7. He was free after that, and during this last act, he and the Colonel had let in the blue-coat, and retired into a secluded nook among the scenery.

  8. Ned Burleigh fled round a corner seeking a secluded nook that he had marked down for emergencies.

  9. The Frenchman beamed upon them, and led the way to the rear of the little room, where he motioned them to seats at a somewhat secluded table.

  10. Finally, out of breath and tired of limb and body, he came to a halt in a secluded spot in a narrow street.

  11. At last, having disposed of all their apples, and having come to a place somewhat more secluded than the rest, the lads sat down to wait.

  12. In this warfare against Pyrrhus and the Carthaginians, the Romans, who had been hitherto confined within the secluded circle of the petty states of Italy, appeared for the first time on the great historical theatre of the then political world.

  13. The full Indian always seeks some secluded spot on which to build.

  14. He fancied how he would have liked to be the son of that house, and dream away life in that wild secluded spot; but, after all, the thought was like the epicure's notion of how contented he could be with a meal of potatoes!

  15. I thought it would be such a nice thing to retire from the world and all its vanities, and live there very secluded and forgotten.

  16. A walk of some ten miles brought him to a secluded nook in the mountains, a perfect basin a dozen acres in size, heavily wooded, with plenty of grass and water.

  17. This new camping-place was more secluded than the former one, and approached by a narrow ridge that no one would believe a horse could pass along, for in places it was only eighteen inches wide.

  18. We remained in that secluded nook until the growing chill woke us from our trance.

  19. To develop skill for the sport I would spend hours in some secluded spot, secretly practising it by myself.

  20. But he had gathered, from what Madge told him, that her father was eccentric, and detested visitors--that he would permit nothing to break the monotonous and regular habits of the secluded old house.

  21. His vigorous strokes sent him rapidly by Strand-on-the-Green, that secluded bit of a village which so few Londoners have taken the trouble to search out.

  22. It needed two years of tremendous war to break through the shy reserve of this secluded and almost monastic little circle, and let loose its sons upon the battlefield.

  23. She had her trunks packed and drove immediately after breakfast to Carrollton, where she remained secluded in the hotel until she found a private boarding house in the unfrequented outskirts of the village.

  24. From the halls of the Vatican to the most secluded hermitage of the Apennines, the great revival was everywhere felt and seen.

  25. The roads which led to the secluded town were so bad that few travellers had ever visited it, and none had ever published an account of it.

  26. Even in the most secluded valleys, the herbage is pale and withered, and vegetation stunted.

  27. When I began it last year, I asked you to go with me, in thought, to a secluded inland village in our own Diocese.

  28. A secluded opening in the woods was a "calm spot.

  29. Along the foot of the mountain flows a clear trout stream, secluded and undisturbed in those awful solitudes, which is the "Mercy Brook" of the old woodsman.

  30. A sharp youngster living a secluded life and studying more than he plays may be years ahead of other kids who go to public schools.

  31. Descending from the secluded hill-side where the ruins of Hulne Priory nestle amidst the thick woods, and crossing both the vale below, and the river beyond it, a roadway leads to the beautiful pleasure-grounds of Hulne Park.

  32. We felt a trifle out of place, and, most likely on that account chose the most secluded and unobserved spot for our experimental siesta.

  33. As Barney Flynn, the King of the Bowery, was a genial and jovial monarch, the more secluded chamber did not resemble a throne-room so much as a rendezvous of kindred spirits.

  34. It was extraordinary, seeing the secluded life they led, how familiar these young wives were with Laghouat society.

  35. We no longer think of insanity as demoniacal possession, and we no longer immure people with diseased brains in the secluded apartments of lovely houses.

  36. His life was a secluded one enough, and he felt strongly that a man has a right to his own personal privacy.

  37. As I linger, the day grows darker, the colour fading from leaf and blade; bright points of light flash out among the dark ridges from secluded farms, where the evening lamp is lit.

  38. And what is become of all my old dreams of art, of the secluded worship, the lonely rapture!

  39. Presently she entered a small and secluded apartment, where by a fire certain young ladies and courtiers were talking in a close ring.

  40. Now she lived as a recluse; was ill, or pretended to be so; and when she was not at church she hid herself in a remote secluded dark chamber, where the windows looked out on the neglected garden, densely shadowed by cypress trees.

  41. The duke intended to disembarrass himself of his victims that very night by strangling them in a secluded part of the palace.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secluded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstruse; alone; anonymous; apart; beclouded; blind; buried; calm; cloistered; close; closet; clouded; concealed; cool; covert; detached; distant; dwindling; halcyon; hidden; hushed; impassive; incognito; inmost; innermost; insular; interior; intimate; inward; isolated; latent; lone; lonely; moldering; mysterious; obscure; obscured; occult; pacific; peaceable; peaceful; personal; placid; private; privy; quarantined; quiescent; quiet; recondite; remote; removed; reposeful; reposing; restful; retired; secluded; secret; segregated; separate; separated; sequestered; sheltered; smooth; solitary; still; stolid; subsiding; tranquil; undercover; underground; undisturbed; unfrequented; unknown; unmoved; unperturbed; unruffled; untroubled; waning; withdrawn