She kept all private papers in a locked drawer.

Don't read that, it's private.

The leaders are holding private talks.

We felt as if we were intruding on his private grief.

Anita seemed lost in private thoughts.

My private affairs are no one's business but my own.

I've always kept my private and professional life separate.

a small buff envelope, marked `Strictly private'

The door is marked `private'.

All the private Jewish collectors, by decree, are illegitimate.

In the 19th century, people started using them in private houses and public buildings.

There's this private library at a university in Boston.

Private shipbuilders were required to buy their oak abroad.

Employee: Hmm…well, we are out of private offices.

Basically it was as if they were saying: 'we're the private owners.

So here was a way for families to disconnect their home, their house, their private lives from the outside world, which was represented by the street that led to work and school, which really seems like the thing they had been looking for all along, but the floor plan was just like the Cape Cod only, you know, turned 90 degrees.

673 private golf clubs took part in a recent study.

a joint venture between the state and private industry

BUPA runs private hospitals in Britain.

This year I will have one child at home and one in private school.

We’re like to send our daughter to a private school.

He saw that another small private art school where all the students were women was very popular at that time.

In 1868, a private art academy opened in Paris, and for decades it was probably the most famous private art school in the world.

Before the late 19th century, if (they) women who wanted to become artists had to take private lessons or learn from family members.

So market forces do play a role in keeping private companies from raising their tolls too much.

Secondary roads would become attractive to lots of other people too, and private companies know this.

And because we're a private company, we can't use tax money to do it.

Since they are not government entities, private companies face less political resistance, say to raising tolls in order to provide that better service.

One solution is to sell or lease a part of the infrastructure, a toll bridge, a tunnel, something like that to a private company, usually a company that specializes in this sort of thing.

Professor:Yes, the private companies make a profit.

I have a private reason for being here.

Relax in your own private tree house.

It was the only reasonably private place they could find.

They were very private people, with almost no friends.

Gould was an intensely private individual.

He was invited to give a private performance for the president.

a private gathering of members of the royal family

He was buried in a private ceremony.

Private citizens are not permitted to have weapons.

He returned to his ex-wife's house to pick up a few private belongings.

The landowners have had to sell their private aircraft.

All rooms have private bathrooms.

Could I talk to you in private?

He'd been a private in the army.