16 example sentences using private.
Private used in a sentence
Private in a sentence as a noun
My neighbor was doing OK for himself, but not OK to the extent of "could swing private school".
This, at least, will require the government to seize the private keys of each individual they want to track.
I make every attempt to keep these jokes private between my friends and I, but I'm sure others have heard me make them.
If I send a private email to a friend who has this installed, I've now unknowingly bcc'ed LinkedIn.
People have often speculated about how much cheaper launch services might be if they were in the private sector -- now we can find out. The preliminary signs are very good.
No one knew about his visit, when media reached there his private security somehow managed to make him disappear.
Nowhere is there any express private right of action that gives any private citizen the right to file suit complaining about alleged violations of these laws.
So Microsoft is peeking into private folders, and judging the contents based on political and religious values not inscribed in any law?
Private in a sentence as an adjective
It's like when a politician who spends his entire life as a "civil servant" is obviously and publicly living a billionaire lifestyle with yhahts, mansions & private jets.
Below, Babuskov raised the point that the endorsement system will obstruct useful back-and-forth discussions between sub-kilokarma users in buried threads that often takes the place of a private messaging system on HN.
The most oppressive and authoritarian thing about it is, at root, that most people appear to enjoy it and not see any problems with it, while you view it as this heinous violation of your freedom and imposition on your private space.
But that does not mean a private party should be able to indiscriminately sue anyone around who happens to be offering services that involve some form of money handling, or their investors, for the results of the existing system.
I don't think I've ever gagged quite like that while reading a technical article describing a "neat hack".At first I'm thinking, oh, I wonder how they convinced Apple to let them use some private APIs, and then... curiosity turns to revulsion as soon as I saw that proxy diagram.
My story is just one datapoint of so many -- most of which are private, but easily discoverable by quietly asking around the Valley -- that should help you realize that Facebook is definitely not the company you want operating the world's social infrastructure.
Originally truckers were employed directly by the companies, but eventually those companies realized they could react to unionization by outsourcing truckers, either into private shell companies that closed down as soon as unionization hit or by hiring truckers as contractors.
One competitor can indeed sue another competitor for private damages and other relief if the other competitor is gaining an unfair competitive advantage by falsely advertising that its products or services do something that is material to the customer's decision to use that product or service.
Private definitions
an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines; "our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"
confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy; "a private place"; "private discussions"; "private lessons"; "a private club"; "a private secretary"; "private property"; "the former President is now a private citizen"; "public figures struggle to maintain a private life"
concerning things deeply private and personal; "private correspondence"; "private family matters"
concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath"
not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts"
See also: secret