How to Use recluse in a Sentence

recluse

noun

• My neighbor is a recluse—I only see him about once a year.
• Fun fact: While most spiders have eight eyes, the brown recluse has six.
  — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 10 July 2018
• The Man in the High Castle’—a recluse trying to reset the course of history.
  — Annabelle Timsit, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2017
• But the thump wasn’t enough against the lure of pop recluse Sky Ferreira, who was scheduled to hit the Green Stage at 4:15.
  — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
• In most cases, when there’s one recluse there are dozens, if not more.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
• The six-eyed sand spider is a cousin to the recluses which are found worldwide.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
• Far from being a recluse in the VIP section, he was found mostly out on the dance floor.
  — Jason Horowitz, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• The brown recluse is one of the few species capable of a harmful, tissue-killing bite.
  — C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• There is no proof that anyone has ever died from a brown recluse.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• But Lee, long a recluse, played to character and didn’t bother to show up.
  — Harold Jackson, Philly.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• So my grandma is similar to Leonor in many ways, but not in the way that Leonor is a sad recluse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• One was given to him by the famous recluse Buckskin Bill.
  — Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The Mediterranean recluse spider is a cousin to the brown recluse spider, but is even more reclusive.
  — Rebekah Riess and Leah Asmelash, CNN, 23 Feb. 2021
• There's no word yet on the actor who'll play Boo Radley, the mysterious recluse at the heart of the story.
  — Mary Colurso, AL.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• To identify a brown recluse, look for six eyes arranged in pairs.
  — Emilia Benton, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
• Readers have sometimes taken me for a recluse of some kind.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Sometimes locking horns with a recluse becomes a challenge of the wills.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Spiders: Wolf, brown recluse, house, and cobweb spiders are known to catch and eat ticks.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
• After many years as a recluse and ne’er-do-well, Axl Rose has become a road warrior.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• As for those rumors about the actress being a recluse in Paris in her later years?
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
• Chouinard, typically a recluse, took to the airwaves to bash Trump.
  — Author: David Gelles, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2018
• The target was a 29-year-old recluse who shared a two-bedroom apartment in Jerusalem with his mother.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
• Ora contacts an old lover, Avram, who has become a recluse, and conscripts him to join her in a hike along the Israel Trail.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Craig was raised by dad Harris (Nathan Lane), a recluse who’s recently come out of the closet.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023
• A 75 year-old recluse tries to keep others out of her home in Saskia Rifkin's psychodrama.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2017
• As in Darger’s case, Maier, who died in 2009, was a pack rat and a recluse who never sought to publish her work in her lifetime.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
• Tessai gave himself this guise of recluse—growing out his beard, living in a messy house...
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
• She is returned to her father, a rich recluse who is made more eccentric by grief.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
• The hermit of Mount Athos and the millionaire recluse in his Caribbean hideaway are both dropouts.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The once fun, mischievous practical joker now is a recluse.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024