Sample Sentences for
secluded
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    It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion ... that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.  (source)
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    Dinosaurs build their nests in secluded places.†  (source)
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    Behind these secluded torture houses stands the Black Wall, the execution wall.†  (source)
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    She returned to Monroe County but secluded herself and was rarely seen in public.†  (source)
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    He was in seclusion, according to family members, mourning the loss of a wonderful girl.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    In the general exile they were the most exiled; since while time gave rise for them, as for us all, to the suffering appropriate to it, there was also for them the space factor; they were obsessed by it and at every moment knocked their heads against the walls of this huge and alien lazar-house secluding them from their lost homes.†  (source)
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    The same secludedness and isolation to which the schoolmaster whale betakes himself in his advancing years, is true of all aged Sperm Whales.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The chamber is secluded, but the hum of cameras is never far away.†  (source)
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    They've got him in seclusion until he's dried out, as he's not deemed fit for public display.†  (source)
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    Miss Hepzibah, by secluding herself from society, has lost all true relation with it, and is, in fact, dead; although she galvanizes herself into a semblance of life, and stands behind her counter, afflicting the world with a greatly-to-be-deprecated scowl.†  (source)
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    Before they could say anything else, I drove up and parked in the secluded spot beside the church.†  (source)
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    Fenring was one of the might-have-beens, an almost Kwisatz Haderach, crippled by a flaw in the genetic pattern — a eunuch, his talent concentrated into furtiveness and inner seclusion.†  (source)
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    The hotel was a beautiful, secluded place.†  (source)
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