WITHDRAWN in a Sentence

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69 example sentences for WITHDRAWN, such as:
1. Roses had withdrawn for the night.
2. The garrison was immediately withdrawn.
3. A man could no longer be private and withdrawn.
4. Scared by shadows passing, the fish had withdrawn.
5. She became withdrawn and pensive, hardly speaking to anyone.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WITHDRAWN
withdrawn
 a.  not readily approached; remote; not friendly or sociable; aloof; emotionally unresponsive and detached
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  Scared by shadows passing, the fish had withdrawn.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
2  Roses had withdrawn for the night.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
3  Now that that evil influence had been withdrawn, a new life began for Dr. Jekyll.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
4  When her sister had withdrawn, she turned her head back again, and lay with her face towards the door, until it opened and her father entered.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
5  He was pale and tense, withdrawn into himself, and obstinately determined to save his country and his own position, let it be Lloyd George or who it might.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  She saw it in his bent head, the quick quiet hands, the crouching of his slender, sensitive loins; something patient and withdrawn.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  A man could no longer be private and withdrawn.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  As her eyes fell on him, his seemed to be withdrawn from her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
9  The first instinct of an imaginative stranger might have been to suppose it the person of one of the Celts who built the barrow, so far had all of modern date withdrawn from the scene.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
10  As soon as the vehicle and its driver had withdrawn so far as to be beyond all possible reach of her voice, Mrs. Yeobright turned to her niece.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
11  As soon as the sad little boy had withdrawn from the fire he clasped the money tight in the palm of his hand, as if thereby to fortify his courage, and began to run.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
12  "I began to wonder why you did not come," said Yeobright, when she had withdrawn a little from his embrace.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
13  Eustacia started when the lamp shone upon him, and Clym's arm was involuntarily withdrawn from her waist.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
14  At these junctures in her progress a hand was invariably stretched forward to steady her, holding her firmly until smooth ground was again reached, when the hand was again withdrawn to a respectful distance.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
15  When they had withdrawn from the neighbourhood of the shed she said huskily, "I am to blame for this."
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
Example Sentence:
1  She became withdrawn and pensive, hardly speaking to anyone.
2  There was some debate as to whether the benefit scheme should be withdrawn or simply allowed to wither on the vine.
3  An individual who is passive, utterly apathetic and withdrawn from community life is no true citizen.
4  The garrison was immediately withdrawn.
5  Interest in the project fizzled after the funding was withdrawn.
6  The company has withdrawn the drug as a precautionary measure.
7  The funding was withdrawn after they botched up the first stage of the research.
8  Even as he swam, the tentacle was lazily withdrawn, so that there was no sign of the creature.
9  John F. Kennedy was a Grant Study man, too, though his files were long ago withdrawn from the study office and sealed until 2040.