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Example sentences for "live alone"

  • It's time you got married, both of you, for it is not right for man to live alone, or woman either.

  • It is one thing to renounce the light, to stand in the full glow of the setting beams of our imperial joy and chant out our farewell, and quite another to live alone in the darkness.

  • But of late Mr. Augustus Mortimer had begun to show a degree of infirmity which sometimes made his son uncomfortable that he should have to live alone.

  • She looks a great deal too young and attractive to live alone," said Miss Christie pointedly.

  • You see, no one who was all right could live alone in such a dreadful place as the Dismals.

  • Emile is not made to live alone, he is a member of society, and must fulfil his duties as such.

  • The eye grows brighter and surveys others, we begin to be interested in those about us, we begin to feel that we are not meant to live alone; thus the heart is thrown open to human affection, and becomes capable of attachment.

  • It was difficult to live alone, though he was not answerable.

  • I feel it every day more difficult to live alone.

  • Yet he told me that he had found it more and more difficult to live alone.

  • Was it to live alone, to escape the eyes of the world?

  • Why, your resolution to live alone and in your own way, to dispose freely of the present and the future.

  • She has come to London to live alone, and I am sure she must have some strange and romantic story.

  • Man is not alone in the world, nor is he born to live alone.

  • Man, they say, was not created to live alone; his existence supposes a family; his inclinations urge him to form an alliance, without which the human race could not be perpetuated.

  • Dost thou too make thy moan, In Paradise complain: Why should I live alone, Since Love was all in vain?

  • Why should I live alone, Since Love was all in vain?

  • My heart to thine is flown- Why should I live alone?

  • But it is ill to live alone; I have no choice.

  • You will find it hard to live alone, and at last it shall drag you to death.

  • When these works were completed and all matters were settled, a fitting time was chosen for them to part company with each other, each to live alone, in order more surely to partake of the eternal life in another world.

  • Not in these then did it live alone, but rather, I think, especially while what I may call her human moods were on her, in the soft mystery that dwelt upon her features and gathered and changed in her splendid eyes.

  • Rather should you desire to live alone in holiness until at length your separate lives are merged and lost in the Good Unspeakable, the eternal bliss that lies in the last Nothingness.

  • If I say to you that I could bear to live alone and he could bear to live alone, because we both knew absolutely that we had had centuries of one another and should win eternity united, you'd stare, too.

  • It will never be persuaded that this good lady does not exist, because it cannot possibly believe that you would have the audacity to live alone in your own house.

  • I have chosen to live alone, and alone I will live.

  • Nevertheless, the fact remained that she was a very young, unmarried woman, that she was going to live alone, and that she was breaking through the whole hard shell of fossilized social tradition.

  • She was of age, and if she chose to live alone, without so much as an elderly companion, no one could hinder her.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "live 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:
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