How to Use reclusive in a Sentence

reclusive

adjective
  • For one thing, the inland taipan is very reclusive.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • The story follows a reclusive man who lives in a remote house by the sea.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Having such a large fossil deposit like this could help explain more about their reclusive lives.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 June 2026
  • The book ends with Cantrell heading off toward Maine to restart his reclusive life.
    — Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2026
  • Glaser said to the famously reclusive megastar.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Jan. 2026
  • As more and more birders gathered to see the bird, the animal became more reclusive and hid in a mesquite thicket.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That year, the reclusive poet was persuaded to give his début public reading, at the age of sixty-five.
    — Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The film follows an unlikely angel who is sent from heaven to convince a reclusive man to give up his life for the greater good.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • In the six-year break between shows, Castle became even more reclusive and unstable.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 May 2026
  • The film follows a reclusive healer with the gift of restoring voices lost to a mythical river siren.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Not necessarily reclusive perhaps, but just private, as much of us are.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Mitski is the writer of these songs, but the speaker is someone else, a reclusive woman who resides in an unkempt house.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The series follows Danes as a reclusive author who has retreated from public life after the death of her young son.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Michael is stunned by the usually reclusive Creed's sudden forcefulness.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The film follows a reclusive mortician who faces an unusual request from a dissident singer in hiding.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But Kellow’s tour was not just taking a deeper dive into the stories of reclusive monks and innovative nuns.
    — Jamie Ditaranto, AFAR Media, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Seven strange tales intersect in a small town populated by eerie figures, including a reclusive doctor and a man who claims ants live in his ears.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Iran’s two major adversaries have thoroughly humiliated it; the regime was not able to hide its reclusive leader for even a few hours.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, the crowd was gathered for a reading by James Schuyler, a reclusive sixty-five-year-old poet who had never read in public before.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
  • There’s long been this narrative of you and Lana as famously, notoriously reclusive.
    — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
  • Viewers, especially older viewers, are more likely as a result to become anxious, even reclusive.
    — Zeynep Tufekci, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The work of the reclusive, forbiddingly erudite author turns out to be perfect easy-listening material.
    — Namara Smith, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
  • Similar to her brother, Allen is a reclusive personality.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • To editors of the time, the most marketable image of Dickinson the poet was that of the eccentric, reclusive, asexual woman in white.
    — Via Chronicle Books, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The Guards are likely to make Iran even more reclusive and significantly heighten the crackdown on liberties and dissent.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Neighbors who spoke to CNN, most of whom asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the case, described Cole as a reclusive presence.
    — Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Their reclusive nation is also reigning world champion in under-17s and under-20s women’s soccer.
    — Andrew McNicol, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
  • Set in the sweltering heat of Atlanta, Anna (Thompson) has becom reclusive, fading away from her friends and career as a news anchor.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Guigsy is extremely reclusive; the Gallaghers and the rest of the current lineup quite possibly have no interest in participating in any of this.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Pynchon has clear interests and O’Shea charts the reclusive author’s obsessions across his books and the fragments of his biography that are available.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025

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