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Example sentences for "alone with"

  • Only now, when you're alone with me, knowing me to be ignorant of any facts against you, do you raise it again.

  • I have not been happy leaving them alone with her, but what could I do?

  • Mr. Hummel, who was usually by no means averse to society, loved now to be alone with nature, and hated the place of resort of the citizens in the country, where the aroma of new cakes and fritters destroyed the perfume of nature.

  • It is well that Felix is not at home, for I can now be alone with my sorrow.

  • She laid the volume before him; he looked over it without interest, and at last began, in a low tone: "All I wished was to be alone with you.

  • They had dined at a cafĂ©, and all through dinner she had longed to be alone with Owen, and after dinner the time had seemed so long.

  • The last you see of him--is alone, kneeling on the prison floor; he is alone with God.

  • We must be alone with Him, that into our own hearts we may receive all the fulness of His blessing; and our petition must be 'Thou Son of David!

  • Friends and companions may bring the tidings of the risen Lord's loving heart, but the actual closing with the Lord's mercy must be done by myself, alone with Him.

  • Jesus Christ to give you His highest gifts and to reveal to you His fairest beauty, you must be alone with Him.

  • Foljambe and the lawyer are gone, and I am alone with Harker, whose stupidity is something marvellous.

  • I don't want his anxiety; I want to be alone with my granddaughter.

  • Alone with Ellen, sly Mrs. Tadman took occasion to launch out into enthusiastic praises of her cousin; to which the girl listened in profound silence, closely watched all the time by the woman's sharp gray eyes.

  • Alone with Thee, amid the mystic shadows, The solemn hush of nature newly born; Alone with Thee, in breathless adoration, In the calm dew and freshness of the morn.

  • I have been longing and longing for this, just to be alone with you, and have you to myself.

  • There, alone with Jim, in a little cottage--ah, there would have been nothing boring about that!

  • It seems awfully strange and queer, rushing farther and farther away from home, alone with you!

  • We remember that the Abbe Busoni remained alone with Noirtier in the chamber of death, and that the old man and the priest were the sole guardians of the young girl's body.

  • Bosio made no attempt to be alone with her, and at the end of half an hour both he and his brother departed to their own quarters.

  • Taquisara scarcely left the sick man's side except when Gianluca could be alone with Veronica.

  • At this time I can easily be alone with Veronica.

  • Then, too, in the drawing-room, or the boudoir, it would not be easy to be alone with Gianluca.

  • Call the priest," she said, "and leave me alone with him.

  • You will only frighten him; whereas, if I am alone with him I shall soon find out all I want to know; he has reached the point where a man tells me everything he thinks, and sees through my eyes only.

  • I wish to be alone with Francine; she is better for me than my own company, perhaps.

  • Rookie, alone with you, I have that sense of Old Crow's being alive, very much alive.

  • She is very sweet and gentle, but she will not leave him alone with me because I am queer and she is afraid I may teach him to be queer.

  • For a woman to be shut up alone with him, her young, too, to defend!

  • Alone with sorrow,--of all ghastly things for a man to be alone with!

  • She adores him,' she thought, 'and only wants to be alone with him.

  • The action seemed to make Julian aware that perhaps his manner was odd, and his subsequent glance at the doctor was very plainly, and even rudely, explanatory of a wish to be alone with Cuckoo.

  • Alone with Valentine, he would be able to lead the conversation in any direction he chose.

  • Now that she was actually shut up alone with Valentine, fear returned upon her and banished every other feeling, every desire except the desire to be away from him.

  • Now, on the afternoon on which I had received the latest of her despatches, I sauntered out into the wood to be alone with my own thoughts, unmolested and undisturbed.

  • Call me at five," said I, passing up the stairs, and impatient to gain my room and be alone with my indignation.

  • I locked the door to be alone with my own thoughts, and, opening my writing-desk, I spread before me four sovereigns and some silver.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alone with" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    alone have; alone together; alone with; certain weight; circumstances permit; direct perception; early career; evening dress; inch hole; military point; morning paper; mortal enemy; party government; proper division; real self; sanctum sanctorum; save only; slaty cleavage; small fruits; started for; supreme command; tall figure; then place; young artists