sequestered

IPA: sɪkwˈɛstɝd

Examples of "sequestered" in Sentences

They live retired and sequestered from the eyes of their fellow-citizens.
How long wilt thou keep thy son Kamar al-Zaman sequestered from the eyes of the folk?
THE house they had taken was quiet, and sequestered from the noise of the streets, and had a small garden attached to it.
He goes completely out of his way to try and keep her sequestered from the rest of the crew while he hustles to get a male replacement sent up.
But that fact hides dramatic income inequality: while wealthy citizens live luxuriously in sequestered Guatemala City neighborhoods, the poor are barely noticed, living like feudal peasants in the countryside.
Spas used to conjure up visions of rich, fortysomething women, slathered, pummeled and anointed, sequestered from the world while a plastic surgeon's handiwork healed among plush surroundings, granola farms in Battle Creek, or extreme fitness.
They knew the bench; it was "sequestered" -- they had praised it for that together, before, and liked the word; and after they had begun to linger there they could have smiled (if they hadn't been really too serious, and if the question hadn't so soon ceased to matter), over the probable wonder of the others as to what would have become of them.