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Discover LudwigThe phrase "withdrew into himself" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe when a person withdraws from a situation or a conversation, often in an effort to avoid feeling uncomfortable. For example, "When the topic of conversation turned to his family, he grew quiet and withdrew into himself."
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Matthew Sepi withdrew into himself on his return from Iraq.
Johnson suffered depression and withdrew into himself; Brilleaux got irritated and carried on drinking.
He withdrew into himself, curling up to sleep in his fleece and waterproof shell on the steps near the east side of the park.
Such preoccupations were sufficient for fashionable minds in a nation concerned with foreign affairs and public scandals but were not wholly satisfactory later, when the individual citizen withdrew into himself to search for fulfillment through jogging or cuisine minceur.
But B.D. frowned and withdrew into himself for a minute, and I bet he was wondering if, inside this insatiable woman, Janet Charleson, he'd mixed his powers with those of a goat.
After his reversal in Greece, he withdrew into himself and allowed himself to be drawn into harem intrigues in which he was, in fact, only a pawn; thus, he disposed of his brother's entire family at the demand of the queen.
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"He seemed to withdraw into himself completely..
He stops eating; he withdraws into himself; he grows sick.
He doesn't take pressure well, I was told, and tends to withdraw into himself.
Socrates would apparently withdraw into himself quite regularly, sometimes for hours at a time.
In the early nineteen-nineties, when Owen was three, he began to withdraw into himself.
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