How do you use Alone in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like entirely or unique, plus the exact meaning.
Alone in a sentence
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Alone meaning
- By oneself, solitary.
- Not involved in a romantic relationship.
Synonyms of Alone
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Using Alone
- The main meaning on this page is: By oneself, solitary. | By oneself, solitary. | Not involved in a romantic relationship.
- Useful related words include: unaccompanied, only, entirely, uncomparable.
- Possible Dutch translations are: alleen.
- In the example corpus, alone often appears in combinations such as: let alone, alone in, alone and.
Example sentences (20)
He goes there alone, presumably because he wants to be alone, but alone is not what awaits him.
Lib Dem MP Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale) said he knew the “entire script” for Home Alone and Home Alone 2, but described later sequels as “abominations”.
Most of it was through Contiki trips because I lived alone but didn't want to travel alone and my closest friends were all in relationships, buying houses and starting families.
The king’s youngest son was On his father’s biggest day, Prince Harry arrived at Westminster Abbey alone and he left alone.
You'll see him carrying his bag alone, enter the motor alone.
A usual Tuesday – wake up alone, work alone all day at my desk, take breaks to dramatically lip-sync to All By Myself in the mirror – then in the evening I’m out for dinner with a friend, Max.
Hiking alone is obviously not the best idea, but being alone in the middle of nowhere is also cathartic.
I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
If you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone.
Reflecting on his solitude while orbiting the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins wrote in his memoir Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey: "I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life.
She said: ‘They should have left this whole thing alone, just leave it alone!
So, it’s not Guyana alone; it’s not the US alone.
You taught me to never give up, even if I feel that I’m standing alone, since I’m never really alone, Hashem is always there by my side helping me do the right things always.
Even when I was alone and going through my depression or my trauma, I would really cling to being around friends and having that exchange; feeling not alone in those moments.
He is not alone in that; he is not alone in his regrets.
If you have friends or family members in recovery, consider reaching out to them to let them know they’re not alone—that none of us are alone.
I go to sleep alone and I wake up alone.
No, we’re advised or, depending on the ZIP code, commanded to worship like we dine and do all else at this juncture — alone, or as close to alone as we can manage.
Of course, the private sector cannot be alone in this fight, and we are not alone.
Robbed of the many things you would have done, you need to remember that you may find yourself alone as we fight this, but you are not fighting it alone.
Common combinations with alone
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- let alone 25×
- alone in 23×
- alone and 20×
- not alone 15×
- it alone 11×
- left alone 10×
- be alone 8×
- home alone 8×
- alone is 7×
- alone with 7×