SECLUSION in a Sentence

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For SECLUSION, below is one of 26 sentences:
It is evidently the theory of some arm-chair lounger who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study.

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 Meanings and Examples of SECLUSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seclusion
 n.  isolation; solitude; secluded place; shutting out or keeping apart
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  It is evidently the theory of some arm-chair lounger who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  He took them up into a loft which could only be reached by a ladder from the harness-room, and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
3  I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion; you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
4  Connie had stood and looked, it was a breach in the pure seclusion of the wood.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was illusory.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  "'Tis very lonesome for 'ee in the heth tonight, mis'ess," said Christian, coming from the seclusion he had hitherto maintained.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
8  We shall, of course, live in absolute seclusion, and our married life will only begin to outward view when we take the house in Budmouth, where I have already addressed a letter on the matter.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
9  Knowledge of his state could only make her the more unhappy; and the seclusion of their life was such that she would hardly be likely to learn the news except through a special messenger.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
10  We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  Here it was wofully visible, in this intense seclusion of the forest, which of itself would have been a heavy trial to the spirits.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
12  But at length she was secured by the exertions of Elinor, who greatly disapproved such continual seclusion.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
13  Mrs. Brandley had been a friend of Miss Havisham's before the time of her seclusion.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
14  She ordered all the books that were praised in the foreign papers and reviews she received, and read them with that concentrated attention which is only given to what is read in seclusion.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 25
15  Old Mrs. Varnum, by this time, had gone up to bed, and her daughter and I were sitting alone, after supper, in the austere seclusion of the horse-hair parlour.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence:
1  Robinson is in seclusion, recovering from major surgery and suffering greatly from the loss of her only son.
2  But yet quiet and lonely hills enough, and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion I had not expected to find existent so near the stirring locality of Millcote.
3  She liked to sunbathe in the seclusion of her own garden.
4  She lived in seclusion with her husband on their farm in Panama.