Sentence examples for sequestered life from inspiring English sources

Expatriates, used to a secure if sequestered life, tried not to think about the tanks parked outside their compounds.

Her abusive brother threatens to break her legs if she does not prepare dinner for a suitor, but she prefers death to a sequestered life.

Ms. Kauffman said she spoke at length to the Brooklyn restaurant's owner about his arranged marriage and his relatively sequestered life, in which Internet use was restricted and sex-related passages of the Talmud had been redacted.

Moreover, precepts or morality was not necessarily construed as the rigid monastic rule governing sequestered life apart from normal society, but as a more general code of proper action observable in varying degrees in lay life also.

"Hillary Clinton lives a sequestered life behind gates and walls and guards," he said, accusing her of mocking and demeaning hardworking Americans.

Born in 1860, in the seaside resort of Ostend, Belgium, he spent much of his life sequestered in a cluttered apartment above his family's curiosity shop.

But by the time the videotaping began in early 2000, Mr. Fadl was feeling bored and isolated in his new American life, sequestered with his wife and several children in an undisclosed location.

The compression may be van Campen's fault -- he seems to have miscalculated the amount of space he had to work with and made his subject's head too large -- but the results generated the romantic speculation, still current, that Saenredam was a hunchback and a recluse who spent a life sequestered in churches.

Where have you been sequestered all my life?

Thus, most people spend much of their daily life sequestered in sealed buildings.

There is something inspiring about the prospect of an American childhood in which advertising does not invade the imagination so relentlessly, but something claustrophobic about the notion that the only alternative is a sequestered family life.