ALONE in a Sentence

Learn ALONE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
321 example sentences for ALONE, such as:
1. He who stands alone has no power.
2. Man does not live by bread alone.
3. It was pleasant to be alone again.
4. A man alone is either a saint or a devil.
5. Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ALONE
alone
 ad.  without anybody else or anything else
 ad.  without any others being included or involved
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He hung back, and she came out alone and paused within a few yards of him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  A moment later he heard the jingle of departing sleigh bells and discerned a figure advancing alone toward the empty expanse of snow before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Even a few minutes earlier, when they had stood alone outside the house, he would not have dared to think of kissing her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
5  But the old horse was there alone, mumbling his crib with toothless jaws, and Ethan whistled cheerfully while he bedded down the grays and shook an extra measure of oats into their mangers.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  Startled at finding it locked he rattled the handle violently; then he reflected that Mattie was alone and that it was natural she should barricade herself at nightfall.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
7  Ethan, consumed with the longing for a last moment alone with Mattie, hung about impatiently while Denis made an ineffectual search in the obscurer corners of the store.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
8  Mattie was there alone, as he had pictured her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
9  Despair seized him at the thought of her setting out alone to renew the weary quest for work.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  And the alternative was to let Mattie go forth alone, with far less hope of ultimate provision.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
11  But Mrs. Hale had said, "You've had an awful mean time, Ethan Frome," and he felt less alone with his misery.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  Ethan, looking slowly about the kitchen, said to himself with a shudder that in a few hours he would be returning to it alone.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  The clumps of trees in the snow seemed to draw together in ruffled lumps, like birds with their heads under their wings; and the sky, as it paled, rose higher, leaving the earth more alone.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  Old Mrs. Varnum, by this time, had gone up to bed, and her daughter and I were sitting alone, after supper, in the austere seclusion of the horse-hair parlour.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  Not content with Stuart alone, she had set her cap for Brent as well, and with a thoroughness that overwhelmed the two of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
1  You have found your sunlight, I actually still in alone sad.
2  If I say leave me alone,actually I need you more than at any time.
3  It was pleasant to be alone again.
4  It's almost inconceivable that a handicapped girl is very independent and lives all alone.
5  It is better to be alone than in ill company.
6  They are never alone accompanied by noble thoughts.
7  Man does not live by bread alone.
8  He alone is happy who commands his passions.
9  He is never alone that is in the company of noble thoughts.
10  Govern your thoughts when alone, and your tongue when in company.
11  Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
12  Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
13  It is better to be alone than in bad company.
14  A man alone is either a saint or a devil.
15  He who stands alone has no power.