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Example sentences for "quite alone"

  • The place is deserted, one is quite alone, and is it not pleasant?

  • Don Vigilio has just come down and he is quite alone.

  • As Pierre, quite alone and in a dreary mood, slowly paced the endless, flat highway, that resurrection of the past which he had beheld on the Palatine again confronted his mind's eye.

  • Oh, no," she replied, "he is quite alone!

  • Tell him I wish to be quite alone to-day," said Rossi, and then the soft voice ceased, and the timid creature went out with a guilty look.

  • Yes, and to be friendless and alone--quite, quite alone in a cruel and wicked city.

  • Some moments afterwards the Pope was quite alone.

  • Her aunt would dine in her own room, so they would be quite alone.

  • Suddenly aunt comes riding up, quite alone, not even Bonc[oe]ur with her.

  • He was in the same hotel, quite alone as I was.

  • He is quite alone and--here is what I find interesting--he has no valet.

  • He is quite alone, and has come to look for her, poor fellow; so I told him that you would go with him to keep him company.

  • Monsieur Parent pretended not to hear, but went into his own room, and as soon as he got in, locked the door, so as to be alone, quite alone.

  • But I'm quite alone with my mother this evening," said Berthine.

  • She conversed upon various public and general topics till the friseur was dismissed, and then I was honoured with an audience, quite alone, for a full hour and a half.

  • This lovely princess received me quite alone ; Miss Planta only shut me in - and she then made me sit by her, and kept me in most bewitching discourse more than an hour.

  • In the afternoon the little girl arrived quite alone, except that a man had been hired to carry a small box for her, and to deliver her into my charge.

  • Yes, quite alone," I answered, "or with Minima only.

  • Englishwomen are extremely intrepid, and voyage about all the world quite alone, like this.

  • She would have to fight her battles alone, quite alone.

  • Her mother was sitting in the drawing-room at her writing bureau, quite alone.

  • Eve won't get any leave till Easter; and I can be quite alone, and see to Nollie here.

  • As she reached the dais she stepped on it quite alone, and advancing to the front made a pretty curtsey to the assembled Royalties.

  • She kissed me, and then said sadly, "My task is done--I am quite alone.

  • And he went into his own room, and as soon as he got in he locked the door, so as to be alone, quite alone.

  • On other evenings, she used to be quite alone, with black pearls in the lobes of her small ears, that were like pink shells, and got up and left her box as soon as he had finished his performance on the trapeze .

  • But to examine it comfortably one should be quite alone.

  • He attracts everybody and so leaves us quite alone in this salon.

  • She wished to have the evening to herself, quite alone, so that she could let her dreams take flight.

  • And once when the angels had all gone out, she thought, "Now I am quite alone, and I could peep in.

  • He began to run and wanted to be quite alone in his own room at home, to think of something really large for his last wish.

  • When the tailor was thus left quite alone in his house he fell into great grief, and would gladly have had his sons back again, but no one knew whither they were gone.

  • Instead of that the baron goes to Paris, and leaves her, amid snow and ice, quite alone at Berkow.

  • Cotterby carries me up to the roof; he turns the barrow over and there I am, on the roof, quite alone, for Cotterby had gone back immediately, so as to create no suspicion.

  • I have been with Marguerite now for a week daily, quite alone, during a whole hour.

  • We had better not go quite alone, however, for we may yet have to use the strong hand by the way.

  • Quite alone, my lord," replied the man, and retired.

  • The girl is quite alone, her father has just died; and since I have been long promising your Aunt Flossy, and they are in the same city, I think I ought to take this time for my visit.

  • In the evening Irene roused herself from what had for several hours been almost a stupor, to ask Erskine if he could give the entire evening to her, and if they could be quite alone.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite 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:
    eating house; look where; public funeral; quite clean; quite clear; quite dead; quite easily; quite happy; quite independent; quite like; quite naked; quite natural; quite naturally; quite near; quite prepared; quite right; quite safe; quite satisfied; quite simple; quite small; quite soft; quite straight; quite unable; quite unnecessary; terrible fire; white swan