PRIVATE in a Sentence
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361 example sentences for PRIVATE, such as:
1. The cost of private treatment can be prohibitive.
2. The President is paying a private visit to Europe.
3. They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies.
4. I don't want to invade your private life unnecessarily.
5. Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.
2. The President is paying a private visit to Europe.
3. They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies.
4. I don't want to invade your private life unnecessarily.
5. Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PRIVATE
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private
a. concerning one person exclusively
a. not expressed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.
2 Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3 They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
4 He was accompanied in his travels by his private secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
5 I satisfied myself that it was a cab and not a private carriage by the narrow gauge of the wheels.
6 It must have been a private wrong, and not a political one, which called for such a methodical revenge.
7 These would meet in private and afterwards communicate their decisions to the others.
8 But nothing private; no strict biographical facts.
9 As they listened and looked--out into the garden--the trees tossing and the birds swirling seemed called out of their private lives, out of their separate avocations, and made to take part.
10 I've something very private and particular to say to you.
11 There he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Jekyll's Will, and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.
12 In such terms Mr. Gradgrind always mentally introduced himself, whether to his private circle of acquaintance, or to the public in general.
13 As she thus spoke, she vanished through a private door, and Reginald Front-de-Boeuf entered the apartment.
14 The ponderous castle-bell had tolled the point of noon, when Rebecca heard a trampling of feet upon the private stair which led to her place of confinement.
15 But let his obsequies be private, as becomes those of a man who died in an unjust quarrel.
Example Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
1 She accused them of leaking confidential information about her private life.
2 As her private secretary he has access to all her correspondence.
3 This does not necessarily imply that children achieve better results in private schools.
4 The cheques were delivered to the bank by a private courier firm.
5 The cost of private treatment can be prohibitive.
6 It's not the first time that the paper has been in trouble for printing untruths about people's private lives.
7 The government wants more people to use public transport instead of private cars.
8 The upper classes usually send their children to expensive private schools.
9 He's usually very adept at keeping his private life out of the media.
10 The President is paying a private visit to Europe.
11 I don't want to invade your private life unnecessarily.
12 This weekend, visitors will get a rare chance to visit the private apartments.
13 Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.
14 Plans to build a private hospital have been scuppered after a government inquiry.
15 Huge sums of private capital will be ploughed into the ailing industries of the east.