Sentence examples for withdrawn like from inspiring English sources

But he seemed bored and withdrawn, like a busy man spending the afternoon with his in-laws.

"She used to look withdrawn, like a bag lady, but since meeting Sam, she's broken out of her shell — she's a new person.

It was the first and last time that she was hospitalized, her mother says, locked in a closed unit with other mentally ill people, some withdrawn like her and others quite manic or psychotic.

Similarly, an analysis of the concept, say, of existence "cannot consist just in acts of contemplating a rarefied object, withdrawn, like a coin in a museum, from its native commercial transactions" (1962b, 185).

Your new boss demands everyone to be creative and starting new projects thus, favouring your peers doing this, while the more withdrawn, like yourself, become scapegoats.

Why did he withdraw like this?

Most of all, I'm irritated by the mileage gained from a trumpeted "partnership" with Ramsay's mucker David Beckham, generating a forest's worth of column inches and from which Beckham allegedly "withdrew" like a shy virgin.

Iris is wildly impulsive, at least by the minimal standards of the household, mercilessly teasing Donnie for his own tendency to withdraw (he likes to listen to music through headphones) and encouraging her sister to get out of the house and resume her education.

Mallinder withdrew the likes of Soane Tonga'uhia and captain Dylan Hartley as his side trailed in the final quarter.

She plays Amy at perfect pitch, not sullen exactly but withdrawn, guarded, like her mother.

I felt withdrawn -- like I wanted to call it a day and reemerge when everyone had gone home -- but the unearthly beauty of Bulat's music drew me towards something more connected.