Below you will find example sentences with "living alone". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Living Alone in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: alone
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.6 words

Words in this phrase

living alone

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • living can mean: present participle of live Common word
  • alone can mean: By oneself, solitary. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

had someone living alone who was 2× about strangers living alone in separate 1× anxiety about living alone overwhelms her 1× appear that living alone is no 1× been found living alone in caves 1× childless adult living alone in an 1× claim when living alone if they 1× d been living alone for 16 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a truffle hunter 1× another person told 1× approximately 31 of 1× as a childless 1× assistant chief fire 1× couples with children 1×

Common sentence endings:

age or older 2× a financial godsend 1× and drug dependency 1× as a couple 1× for 16 years 1× in new zealand 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

home 5× households 4× people 4× years 3× age 3× individuals 2× someone 2× older 2× loved 2× related 2× media 2× work 2×

Related phrases

let alone living room people living assisted living living wage left alone living space home alone senior living living abroad

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around alone:

let alone 20× left alone 10× home alone 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

living abroad lives matter liverpool england liverpool city liver disease live streaming

Just after it in the phrase index:

living legend living nearby living room living space living wage llc acquired

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

living room living wage living space living abroad living nearby living legend

Same ending:

let alone left alone home alone

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "living alone" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as had someone living alone who was, about strangers living alone in separate, home, households and people stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with let alone, living room, people living, let alone, left alone and home alone, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with living alone

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

For many, living alone is the culprit. (7 words)

That was peculiar: She’d been living alone for 16 years. (11 words)

It would appear that living alone is no barrier to learning from others. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

Mr Hardy explains that under current DWP rules, people on income-related benefits such as Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or (UC) risk “losing some or all” of the benefits they claim when living alone if they start cohabiting as a couple. (42 words)

Couples with children who had either left home or still lived at home were prepared to sacrifice the most from their salary to work from home compared to couples with no children, single parents or those living alone or with others. (41 words)

The ewe, dubbed by the media as “the world’s loneliest sheep”, has been named Fiona to continue a theme after a sheep was named Shrek having previously been found living alone in caves in New Zealand. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

Approximately 31% of all households were made up of individuals living alone and 8.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Thirty-three point six percent (33.6%) of all households are made up of individuals living alone and 16.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

This is a challenge for most of us: Those living together can find themselves experiencing friction, while those living alone can suffer from the effects of isolation and loneliness.

Another person told me that she had been living with roommates but listening to me talk about what I loved about living alone reminded her of what she loved, too.

Most of these households were people living alone, but some were composed of people living in households in which no one was related to the householder.

After all, this is a show about strangers living alone in separate apartments, completely isolated, and only communicating through a social media platform.

As a childless adult living alone in an apartment with three distinct rooms, I found the post-vaccination, work-from-home period to be a financial Godsend.

Assistant chief fire officer Dan Quinn said further risk factors in addition to smoking included hoarding, reduced mobility, living alone, and alcohol and drug dependency.

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A truffle hunter living alone in the Oregon wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of a beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

Couples with children who had either left home or still lived at home were prepared to sacrifice the most from their salary to work from home compared to couples with no children, single parents or those living alone or with others.

For many, living alone is the culprit.

Her anxiety about living alone overwhelms her and she realises she can no longer remain in the cottage.

He was living alone and so no one else had taken them, and he never found out where the binoculars went.

It would appear that living alone is no barrier to learning from others.

Mr Hardy explains that under current DWP rules, people on income-related benefits such as Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or (UC) risk “losing some or all” of the benefits they claim when living alone if they start cohabiting as a couple.

Nathu has been living alone in an old age home after his wife’s death.

Northwest Arkansas needs housing types that address a growing senior population, people living alone, and families of varied sizes.

Oliver, like most otters, is happy enough living alone, swimming, chatting, whistling like a bird, or scampering along the twisty-rooted waterways.

That was peculiar: She’d been living alone for 16 years.

The ewe, dubbed by the media as “the world’s loneliest sheep”, has been named Fiona to continue a theme after a sheep was named Shrek having previously been found living alone in caves in New Zealand.

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