SOLITARY in a Sentence

Learn SOLITARY 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.

158 example sentences for SOLITARY, such as:

1. There was a solitary sheep in the field.
2. One solitary tree grew on the mountainside.
3. The benches were empty except for a single solitary figure.
4. On the hill, a solitary figure was busy chopping down trees.
5. I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOLITARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
solitary
 a.  isolated; existing, living, or going without others; alone; unaccompanied
Classic Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
1  I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apartment to spend the evening as I pleased.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  I determined to go without a guide, for I was well acquainted with the path, and the presence of another would destroy the solitary grandeur of the scene.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
3  If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
4  He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  The scene was perfectly solitary; a few boats were returning towards land, but I sailed away from them.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
6  For they had called me mad, and during many months, as I understood, a solitary cell had been my habitation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
7  A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pistols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  In the music room Gatsby turned on a solitary lamp beside the piano.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
10  Overhead was a gray expanse of cloud, slightly stirred, however, by a breeze; so that a gleam of flickering sunshine might now and then be seen at its solitary play along the path.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
11  "Most marshes is solitary," said Joe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
12  When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men's and women's faces wos like, I see yourn.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
13  It had passed through my thoughts to cry out for help again; though few could know better than I, the solitary nature of the spot, and the hopelessness of aid.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
14  But we considered ourselves well off, notwithstanding, for a more solitary place we could not have found.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
15  I had done so, and was looking along the desolate garden walk, when I beheld a solitary figure in it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIX
Example Sentence:
1  A solitary man, it was perhaps fitting that he should have died alone.
2  One solitary tree grew on the mountainside.
3  There was a solitary sheep in the field.
4  On the hill, a solitary figure was busy chopping down trees.
5  The benches were empty except for a single solitary figure.
6  Her father, who flogs knackered cars, despises his solitary, inscrutable, intellectual child and insists that she join the family around the television.
7  The very word conjures up nostalgic images of solitary brick or wooden towers with vanes set against picturesque fields.
8  It was, until relatively recently, a soulful and solitary passerelle, where one could stand for hours in winter, mostly alone, staring out at the view west toward the older, stone parapet of the Pont Royal and the Eiffel Tower, or east toward Notre-Dame and the sharp-jawed Île de la Cité.
9  I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard.
10  His walk soon becomes solitary, leading further and further into a wilderness where twilight is short and the shadows are dense.