How to Use alone in a Sentence

alone

1 of 2 adjective

• He was alone with his thoughts.
• She lived alone for many years.
• He felt very alone when he went away to school.
• This wine goes well with food, but is also very good alone.
• I got him alone and asked him what had really happened.
• She doesn't mind being alone because she never feels lonely.
• And you’re lost and alone in the universe, circling through the ether.
  — Martin Scorsese, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2023
• Shields added that the club hasn’t been alone in these efforts.
  — Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• Some have asked if their child was alone or near friends.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
• There, the cops pretty much left us alone to hone our skills.
  — Salomon Zavala, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• So did the other guests, leaving the couple alone to look for the ring.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 4 Apr. 2024
• Of these artists, Valdez is not alone in highlighting the skin of things.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• The Warriors aren’t alone among the West in dealing with injuries.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
• One day, alone in her apartment, Mary set fire to the curtains.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Griffey isn’t alone in this mission, or the first game.
  — Tim Booth, oregonlive, 7 July 2023
• Her husband, a physician, was in a fellowship at the time, and Parkhurst was alone most of the time.
  — Sarah Swetlik | [e-mail], al, 2 June 2023
• To be fair, Philo is far from alone with these kinds of numbers.
  — Emilia Petrarca, Vogue, 29 Feb. 2024
• Finkel was alone among the trio in draping a chain around his neck before grabbing the pullup bar.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• Loyal is not alone in looking for ways to extend the life of man's best friend.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
• And the yen isn’t alone in riding the currency roller coaster.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 July 2023
• Viewers can see in the first few episodes that Jeremiah has been kind of alone while grieving.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2023
• Those with before-the-title names are not alone in standing with Biden.
  — Jon Regardie, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2024
• The Atheneum is not alone in getting into the real estate game.
  — William Cohan, Town & Country, 7 June 2023
• To use, just pour half a bottle into the clogged drain slowly, then leave it alone for two hours.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• In that case, just be sure to keep your pets away from the candles, and don't leave candles lit when your pets are alone in the room with them.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• Yardeni isn’t alone in his bullish forecast for stocks, either.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• The Aztecs weren’t alone in their interest, just furthest along.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2023
• Moody’s Investors Service is now alone in keeping the US at the highest grade.
  — Christopher Condon, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
• Make a point to check in with yourself, preferably carving out a bit of alone time to focus on your needs.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• Doing good for others trumps doing for yourself alone as the moon and Jupiter harmonize.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024

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alone

2 of 2 adverb

• The special effects alone make the movie worth seeing.
• The price alone is enough to discourage people.
• The police believe the criminal acted alone.
• Just leave it alone, shut the f—k up and mind your business.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2024
• In Gillibrand’s home state alone, agents have used the law to seize more than 120 guns.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• The ones who, if left alone, would never have let any of this happen.
  — TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
• That alone was enough to account for 40 percent of the rise in emissions last year.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
• But the rocks alone aren’t what had drawn the young man from Mesa to Chiricahua 13 times and counting.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
• Five of those counts named Trump as a co-defendant, and the sixth named Nauta alone.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 21 July 2023
• When the ambulance left, the 18-year-old found herself alone, sitting on the kitchen floor.
  — Milla Surjadi, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• The bedroom alone stretches to 20 feet long, and the suite is complete with two spa-like bathrooms.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2023
• There’s so much to offer, some people visit for the food alone.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2023
• The victims were not in or near homeless encampments but were on the streets alone.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Your little one will be fully outfitted and ready to save the day alone or with a friend!
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 24 Mar. 2024
• He then got lost and realized he was not fully prepared to be in the woods alone.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2023
• An orange, for example, triggers the red cones to go about twice as much as the green cones but leaves the blue ones alone.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• There are six types of highballs alone, and Weeks recommends the Cold Blooded.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 26 Mar. 2024
• More than 50 restaurants and bars opened in the city last year alone, with a few introducing new concepts to the city.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• Four major rainstorms this month alone mean that once dry soils are unable to hold much more rain.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
• The euphoric energy alone will keep you awake way past your bedtime (trust me).
  — Carine Lavache, ELLE, 21 July 2023
• Youth were left alone while a staff member napped, inspection files show.
  — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• The thefts had been going on for about two weeks and Gadsden alone had 30 to 40 car burglaries during that time.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Saturday pelting is the latest in a spate of such incidents this year alone.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 9 July 2023
• But the fact of me saying that—of being uncomfortable being alone—that's a bad thing.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
• But sometimes an artist must stand alone and draw solely from herself.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 Jan. 2024
• There were more than 14 million ads in Wisconsin alone.
  — Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
• And this year alone the number of job ads in the U.K. which don’t list a degree as a requirement has surged by 90% on LinkedIn compared to the 12 months prior.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2023
• The women’s lawyers asked for at least $24 million for each woman in defamation damages alone.
  — Time, 15 Dec. 2023
• Those are problems that technology alone will not—and cannot—solve.
  — S. I. Rosenbaum, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2024
• And for March alone, the California expectations index was at 78.5.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024