How to use "private" in a sentence

And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand un repealed, than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.

The visit was a very private one.

On Friday November 30th Druitt lost his job at a private school for some unknown reason

Gillenormand's house, and asked to speak to Marius in private

His private investigations into the old man's past had also revealed an even more disgusting fact

Elliot handles my private affairs."

Maybe I'd hire private detectives, and they wouldn't catch anyone but me."

Elliot didn't tell the judge about the malicious prankster, for that seemed like an unnecessary complication; he still believed that once the fact of Danny's death was established by the exhumation, the quickest and surest way of dealing with the harassment was to hire a first-rate firm of private investigators to track down the perpetrator

Besides, it's a private cemetery, surrounded by a high wall, so there must be a security system to deal with vandals."

When they had landed, they'd been alert for unusual activity on the runway and in the private-craft docking yard - suspicious vehicles, an unusual number of ground crewmen - but they had seen nothing out of the ordinary

During the first year, he'd taken commercial flights or rented the services of a trustworthy private pilot who could fly the conventional twin-engine craft that Alexander's predecessor had managed to pry out of the Network's budget

'It was private.'

'I'm afraid I must ask you tell me about it, private or not.'

When we had finished, I said goodbye and took the private path towards the vicarage

Your private life is not my business, but you just said yourself that you wanted a man of your own

Mrs Catherick told him that she wanted to put Anne in a private asylum, but she did not have enough money

My daughter was put into a private asylum with my knowledge and approval

After dinner, Percival said to the Count, 'I want to talk to you in private

She taught at a school and also worked as a private teacher - she taught children in someone's house