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Example sentences for "stood alone"

  • It stood alone, upon a little eminence; its upper windows commanded the high road.

  • He stood alone in the streets of London; and the sun flashed on him, red and menacing, like the eye of a foe!

  • I stood alone in the spacious building, throughout which there reigned the stillness of the grave.

  • If it stood alone; if the Armenian had closed the scene with it, instead of beginning it, I confess I do not know how far I might have been carried.

  • Although we stood alone, methinks We should be able to maintain our rights.

  • The windless gray, the stars, the stone under his feet, stood alone in the universe, each working out its own soul into deed.

  • He stood alone in the world with this little Margret.

  • I stood alone in my doomed palace; the friends whom I had tempted to their destruction lay lifeless around me; the torch was in my hand that was to light our funeral pile, to set us free from the loathsome world!

  • But there was one among the assembly that was now separating who stood alone in her unrevealed emotions, amid the rejoicing thousands around her.

  • As I stood alone looking at the sea I saw a great cloud rising in the northern sky.

  • Fancy it could not be, for it was past midnight and I stood alone on the great headland.

  • Long I stood alone in the grey morning, watching the bleak house that stood in the distance, while the sea moaned and sobbed miserably, as if to add another feeling to the misery of my heart.

  • On a fine, still evening which I can never forget, I stood alone on the shore, with her likeness in my bosom, and saw the white walls of the house where I knew that she lived.

  • On what was his mind occupied as he stood alone, at the dead of night, in the strange house?

  • She got up, reckless of appearances and looked after him with eager eyes and flushed checks, as he stood alone on the shore.

  • He that is not with Me is against Me,' if it stood alone, would narrow sympathies, and cramp the free development of life.

  • He would have them feel their isolation, and face the fact that they stood alone in their faith; and He would test them whether, knowing that they did stand alone, they had courage and tenacity to re-assert it.

  • He that is not against us is for us,' if it stood alone, would dissolve the Church, and destroy distinctions in belief and practice which it would be fatal to lose.

  • I stood alone in my room holding the mysterious manuscript.

  • I stood alone, gazing back upon the picturesque fishing village with a tender throb at my heart, for it was the last village of my country which I might see for years, or perhaps ever.

  • Always he felt strong when he stood alone!

  • I know now why--it was because I stood alone,--I was the only child of the light and I dreamed things of that.

  • The day was gone, and he stood alone on the heights and reached his hands in ecstasy to his brothers the stars.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stood 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:
    animal form; charter granted; complex idea; ever experienced; good field; immortal youth; level keel; lived here; minimum rates; plain language; poor father; public liberty; stood alone; stood before; stood erect; stood gazing; stood like; stood listening; stood looking; stood over; stood quite; stood stock; stood thus; stood upon; stood upright; white cross