PRIVATE in a Sentence

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The Defense Department has been pressing private contractors for options to speed up deployment of missile defenses.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRIVATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
private
 a.  concerning one person exclusively
 a.  not expressed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
4  He was accompanied in his travels by his private secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
5  I satisfied myself that it was a cab and not a private carriage by the narrow gauge of the wheels.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
6  It must have been a private wrong, and not a political one, which called for such a methodical revenge.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
7  These would meet in private and afterwards communicate their decisions to the others.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
8  But nothing private; no strict biographical facts.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
9  As they listened and looked--out into the garden--the trees tossing and the birds swirling seemed called out of their private lives, out of their separate avocations, and made to take part.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
10  I've something very private and particular to say to you.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
11  There he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Jekyll's Will, and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
12  In such terms Mr. Gradgrind always mentally introduced himself, whether to his private circle of acquaintance, or to the public in general.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
13  As she thus spoke, she vanished through a private door, and Reginald Front-de-Boeuf entered the apartment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  The ponderous castle-bell had tolled the point of noon, when Rebecca heard a trampling of feet upon the private stair which led to her place of confinement.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  But let his obsequies be private, as becomes those of a man who died in an unjust quarrel.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
Example Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
16  The regional parliament threw down a new challenge to the central authorities by passing a law allowing private ownership of businesses.
17  He emphasized that he was speaking as a private citizen, not in any official capacity.
18  The king was visiting France as a private citizen.
19  He visited it as a private citizen.
20  The painting comes from his private collection.
21  A private collection of her early paintings is expected to go under the hammer early next year.
22  Most people believe they conduct their private and public lives in accordance with Christian morality.
23  The visitor opened the wrong door and broke in on a private conference.
24  It was a private conversation and I don't want to go into details about what was said.
25  The interviewer probed deep into her private life.
26  The Defense Department has been pressing private contractors for options to speed up deployment of missile defenses.
27  A private car gives a much greater degree of comfort and mobility.
28  Liberal Democrat leader Mike Storey backed the inquiry into the passing of the information to a private company.
29  I don't discuss private matters with my colleagues.
30  He threatened to bring a private prosecution against the doctor.