SOLITARY in a Sentence
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158 example sentences for SOLITARY, such as:
1. There was a solitary sheep in the field.
2. One solitary tree grew on the mountainside.
3. The benches were empty except for a single solitary figure.
4. On the hill, a solitary figure was busy chopping down trees.
5. I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard.
2. One solitary tree grew on the mountainside.
3. The benches were empty except for a single solitary figure.
4. On the hill, a solitary figure was busy chopping down trees.
5. I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard.
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Meanings and Examples of SOLITARY
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solitary
a. being the only one; single and isolated from others
a. of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies
Classic Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
1 I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apartment to spend the evening as I pleased.
2 I determined to go without a guide, for I was well acquainted with the path, and the presence of another would destroy the solitary grandeur of the scene.
3 If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
4 He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.
5 The scene was perfectly solitary; a few boats were returning towards land, but I sailed away from them.
6 For they had called me mad, and during many months, as I understood, a solitary cell had been my habitation.
7 A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pistols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance.
8 In the music room Gatsby turned on a solitary lamp beside the piano.
9 Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life.
10 Overhead was a gray expanse of cloud, slightly stirred, however, by a breeze; so that a gleam of flickering sunshine might now and then be seen at its solitary play along the path.
11 "Most marshes is solitary," said Joe.
12 When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men's and women's faces wos like, I see yourn.
13 It had passed through my thoughts to cry out for help again; though few could know better than I, the solitary nature of the spot, and the hopelessness of aid.
14 But we considered ourselves well off, notwithstanding, for a more solitary place we could not have found.
15 I had done so, and was looking along the desolate garden walk, when I beheld a solitary figure in it.
Example Sentence:
1 A solitary man, it was perhaps fitting that he should have died alone.
2 One solitary tree grew on the mountainside.
3 There was a solitary sheep in the field.
4 On the hill, a solitary figure was busy chopping down trees.
5 The benches were empty except for a single solitary figure.
6 Her father, who flogs knackered cars, despises his solitary, inscrutable, intellectual child and insists that she join the family around the television.
7 The very word conjures up nostalgic images of solitary brick or wooden towers with vanes set against picturesque fields.
8 It was, until relatively recently, a soulful and solitary passerelle, where one could stand for hours in winter, mostly alone, staring out at the view west toward the older, stone parapet of the Pont Royal and the Eiffel Tower, or east toward Notre-Dame and the sharp-jawed Île de la Cité.
9 I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard.
10 His walk soon becomes solitary, leading further and further into a wilderness where twilight is short and the shadows are dense.