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Example sentences for "when alone"

  • The first night, when alone, I talked him to sleep.

  • I was to take a position at a certain window in the Wells' House and, when alone, signal directly over the water and through the air to a window in the Lacey House, by the simple use of this dot and dash system.

  • When alone in her room, Dolly drew from her pocket a letter in a firm, masculine hand, which she had received at her home before leaving that morning.

  • When alone, the captain reseated himself, and, taking the necklet from his pocket, examined it carefully with the eye of a connoisseur.

  • When alone in his room he opened it, and found it was dated from London, and that it had been forwarded from Brussels.

  • To one who, when alone, stops to think, many things lose in value, human beings among the rest.

  • Yes; when alone, one can more perfectly lose himself in the life universal.

  • When alone Mrs. Bodine said, "You should have gone, Ella.

  • Then, when alone, he added bitterly: "Wake!

  • Mary had certainly no cause for jealousy, for she and I had on several occasions, when alone on the river, spoken of the past.

  • When alone in our compartment in the wagon-lit between Basle and Calais, Madame, however, made a very extraordinary proposal to me.

  • When alone, I sat back in the ill-lit railway carriage and, during my short journey to Cannon Street, reflected deeply.

  • When alone, I have never felt weariness of mind, not even in complete inaction; my imagination filling up every void, was sufficient to keep up my attention.

  • When alone I fell on my knees, to pray and weep.

  • When alone, the stranger said: “Do you not know me?

  • Little by little she began to drink, when alone, a few drops of wine, at first by the advice of her physician, but soon only to satisfy the craving appetite, which grew stronger day by day.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when 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:
    average attendance; break their; make others; that have; when all; when done; when informed; when light; when made; when planted; when practicable; when present; when presently; when pure; when questioned; when riding; when rightly; when served; when sufficiently; when the; when the time comes; when the water boils; when travelling; when what; when young; whenever possible