All 18 Uses of
secluded
in
Girl Interrupted
- They took her down to the end of the hall, to seclusion, while we watched.†
- One of the worst things we watched, though, was Lisa coming out of seclusion two days later.
*seclusion = separation from others
- They let her out of seclusion, they gave her back her belt, and her nails started to grow in again, but Lisa didn't come back.†
- Two more singles, one double, a toilet, and seclusion.†
- The seclusion room was the size of the average suburban bathroom.†
- The seclusion room was supposed to be soundproof.†
- You could pop into the seclusion room, shut the door, and yell for a while.†
- But yelling in the seclusion room was fine.†
- You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room.†
- The seclusion-room etiquette was, If you weren't locked in, anybody could join you.†
- The real purpose of the seclusion room, though, was to quarantine people who'd gone bananas.†
- Anyone who sustained a higher level for more than a few hours was put in seclusion.†
- There were no objective criteria for deciding to put someone into seclusion.†
- Seclusion worked.†
- The worst we got was an afternoon in seclusion.†
- Down at the end of the hall, muffled booming and yelling and crashing came out of the seclusion room.†
- They were seclusion rooms, in fact.†
- Unlike our seclusion room, they had windows, but the windows were tiny, high, chicken-wire-enforced, security-screened, barred windows.†
Definition:
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(secluded) separated from the presence of others