Example Sentences

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Listeners are asked to determine each reader's sex, age, height, build, degree of seclusiveness, personality, characteristics, profession.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rigidly-enforced rules accomplished this seclusiveness for many years, until commercial relations with the "outside barbarians" rendered this no longer possible.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray

But when it is noisy and disharmonious, then its very seclusiveness, its segregation, lends to the quarrels the bitterness of civil war.

From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham

It was so pleasant there, that she spent much of her time in its seclusiveness.

From Story of Chester Lawrence by Anderson, Nephi

She did not get used to the seclusiveness of our present apartment; she got into an argument with the landlord.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther