Sentence examples for closed ourselves from inspiring English sources

"We have never closed ourselves off, whomever is elected there.

"Dev had just broken up with his girlfriend, so we closed ourselves away in this house in Santa Barbara and wrote the story of the end of his relationship".

We closed ourselves to foreign influence.

"If we close ourselves off, the innovation happens somewhere else".

By closing ourselves off, we're missing important opportunities.

We tried to withdraw and close ourselves behind walls and failed".

"I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools, structures.

"They see these aliens wearing all black or white, which they think means we are closing ourselves off.

"I don't see why we have to close ourselves off," she said, standing in her small neat yard, tending to her daffodils.

"Do we not risk closing ourselves off in a defensive logic of the past while the world is drastically shifting?" she asked.

In some cases, of course, it is sinister, while in others it is just the inevitable inward momentum of power that gives us the luxury of closing ourselves off from those who would challenge us.