Example Sentences

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It can be reclusive and even unwelcoming, but it can’t attack its neighbors, blockade international waters, or export extremism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Agents involved in the hunt said they might never have found the reclusive former mathematics professor without the help provided by David Kaczynski.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

The last party congress -- the reclusive nuclear-armed nation's eighth -- was held in January 2021.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

Regarded in her time as "a reclusive spinster that never left her house", she was determined to be free to pursue a life of artistic expression.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

When the man carried Bobby’s luggage to his room, he suddenly recognized the reclusive champion and challenged him to a game.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady