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Example sentences for "being alone"

  • One day, being alone in the house, I climbed up to see these precious apples, which being out of my reach, made this pantry appear the garden of Hesperides.

  • In order to this, being alone in his chamber, after the defeat he had in that of Sylvia's, he writ this letter.

  • Since that time I have been afraid of being alone at night.

  • I hardly like to tell you the strange and seemingly improbable reason that urged me on to this senseless act; the fact, however, is that I am frightened of being alone!

  • Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.

  • Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.

  • Solitude describes the fact that a person is alone; seclusion, that he is shut out from others, usually by his own choice; loneliness, that he feels the pain and oppression of being alone.

  • When the boy had scudded away, Soapy opened the paper and scanned the words of M'Ginnis's telegram and, being alone, smiled as he glanced through it.

  • Being alone, Ravenslee crossed to the sideboard, and taking thence a certain photograph, seated himself in the easy-chair and fell to studying it with deep and grave attention.

  • Being alone, Mr. Ravenslee switched off the lights and sat in the fire-glow.

  • He went into the court with Roland, and politely asked to be excused from the drive, as he felt the necessity of being alone for a few hours.

  • She shuddered at being alone, rang for her dressing-maid, and made an elaborate toilet.

  • I hardly like to tell you the strange and seemingly improbable reason that urged me on to this senseless act; the fact, however, is that I am afraid of being alone.

  • One day, being alone with me, she said, "You have enemies, but I silenced them last night.

  • Another, whom I did not court long, was always afraid of being alone with me, and if I gave her a kiss she would run and tell her mother.

  • Being alone in the yard with her master, she said a few words to him in Turkish, to which he seemed to give his approval, and soon after a servant, assisted by the keeper, brought under the balcony a large basket of goods.

  • The learned priests and scribes were the proper persons to have resorted to, as being alone competent to examine and explain all those predictions which related to Christ's coming, as foretold by the prophets of the Old Testament.

  • That divines view and act on the vicarious sacrifice of Christ as being alone sufficient in the last hour to save sinners, we need but to refer to the attention paid by them to criminals up to the last moments of their lives.

  • Now, one day right early, I being alone in the chamber, copying a psalter, Elliot came in, looking for her father.

  • Then, we being alone in the chamber, I tried to take her hand, but she drew it away.

  • Being alone I thought of my own position in every point of view, until I became more agitated than ever.

  • Here, then, I threw myself upon the sofa, and, being alone, reflected a few moments on the manner of escaping which had occurred to me.

  • Even that brief experience of being alone in the heart of America had frightened her.

  • Then, he realized the distress of being alone.

  • Yet did he not slay the men when he pressed onward to pursue; for it was by no means possible for him, being alone in the sacred[562] car, to assault with the spear and to rein in the fleet steeds.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being alone" 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:
    being acted; being allowed; being attacked; being bound; being delivered; being easily; being exposed; being formed; being gone; being justified; being mixed; being modified; being possessed; being raised; being read; being saved; being seen; being sent; being separated; being shot; being subject; being succeeded; being the; being useful; being willing; first winter