How to Use solitary in a Sentence

solitary

1 of 2 adjective

• A solitary house stood on top of the cliff.
• He took a solitary walk on the beach.
• He's a very solitary man.
• Most cats are solitary creatures.
• The name Osmia is the genus of 242 species of solitary bees.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 24 June 2023
• The two have been held in and out of solitary confinement.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2022
• And the damage isn’t limited to the time spent in solitary.
  — Connie Chang, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
• There wasn’t a lot of solitary time in my life up until 2020.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2023
• The first is a solitary outlier: 2, the only even prime.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• What to Consider: The game is somewhat solitary; not the best for groups of kids.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2023
• Red pandas are most active at dusk and dawn, and are tree-dwelling and solitary.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Feb. 2024
• At first, in that indigo hour, there was just a solitary bird.
  — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2023
• There’s rich whole milk (life’s too short for skim), a solitary egg and two — that’s right, two — sticks of oh-so-sweet cream butter.
  — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• The solitary tree stood for centuries in a dip in the landscape near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• His solitary existence drives him to talk back to the security footage on the TV.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• Little is known about the reasons for this solitary visit.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
• And though females are much more likely to live alone, some stay close to their mothers throughout the course of their solitary lives.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
• As a teenager in the early ’90s, Alessandro strolled the Eternal City with a solitary, focused look.
  — Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2023
• The complaint attributes much of this to the amount of time that Dominguez Gonzalez has spent in solitary confinement.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• In the past year, however, she’s taken on two projects that are not solitary journeys at all.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2024
• In the scenes that follow her on her solitary journey, there is no dialogue.
  — Polen Ly text By Waverly Colville, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
• This is the state where school systems still put children in solitary and strap them into chairs, even after the state board told them to quit.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 9 Aug. 2023
• Ellis made the long, solitary walk to the bench before slapping hands with teammates, taking a seat and burying his face in his hands.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• My years as a solopreneur, or a solitary tree, grew deep roots and expertise in all areas of business.
  — Yec, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• In the case of the treeline operation, a solitary Russian tank whose crew wasn’t afraid to stand and fight a larger and faster Ukrainian force.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• At the center of the woods, off Haven Beach Road, was a solitary and dilapidated Colonial homestead that burned to the ground.
  — Bree Sposato, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
• In the wild, red pandas are solitary, tree-dwelling and crepuscular − active at dusk and dawn − the release said.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2023
• These solitary creatures spend around 10 to 16 hours a day foraging and eating food.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2022
• Brilliant and solitary, Dr. Kurzweil had always been an elusive figure, even in the years when Chowdhury had known him.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2024
• Striped Polecats are Introverted Creatures In the wild, striped polecats are solitary and are often seen on their own.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024

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solitary

2 of 2 noun

• The prisoner was kept in solitary.
• The state promised the kids wouldn’t be held in solitary.
  — Amy Simonson, CNN, 19 July 2023
• While one solitary dropped shot left him just three shots shy of Justin Rose in the lead, the emotions were too much for Kim.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021
• Highsmith was also a solitary who spent most of her life in Switzerland among cats.
  — Sarah Fay, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
• A couple teach their young son to ride his bike in the deserted parking lot, while a solitary can rattles down the road.
  — Marcus Barnes, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2020
• How has your thinking about reading as a solitary or a social act evolved during this time?
  — Eve Bowen, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2022
• Their solitary and, as Sonya sees it, sublime, life involves many mini-adventures and nesting at home in front of the TV.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
• Witnesses at the hearing told the committee that any time in solitary can be life-altering.
  — NBC News, 28 Apr. 2022
• With its sprawling freeways and solitary, car-centric culture, Los Angeles is not known as an easy place to make friends.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• In retaliation, Cohen says he was sent back to prison and spent 16 days in solitary until a federal judge intervened.
  — Dan Berman, CNN, 12 Feb. 2022
• Machen’s father was an impecunious clergyman, his mother an invalid, and their son a solitary but not lonely child.
  — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020
• To draft an answer, Johnson goes back to his famous solitaries in an attempt to identify a common denominator.
  — Kathryn Hughes, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• The prisoner was kept in solitary.
• The state promised the kids wouldn’t be held in solitary.
  — Amy Simonson, CNN, 19 July 2023
• While one solitary dropped shot left him just three shots shy of Justin Rose in the lead, the emotions were too much for Kim.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021
• Highsmith was also a solitary who spent most of her life in Switzerland among cats.
  — Sarah Fay, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
• A couple teach their young son to ride his bike in the deserted parking lot, while a solitary can rattles down the road.
  — Marcus Barnes, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2020
• How has your thinking about reading as a solitary or a social act evolved during this time?
  — Eve Bowen, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2022
• Their solitary and, as Sonya sees it, sublime, life involves many mini-adventures and nesting at home in front of the TV.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
• Witnesses at the hearing told the committee that any time in solitary can be life-altering.
  — NBC News, 28 Apr. 2022
• With its sprawling freeways and solitary, car-centric culture, Los Angeles is not known as an easy place to make friends.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• In retaliation, Cohen says he was sent back to prison and spent 16 days in solitary until a federal judge intervened.
  — Dan Berman, CNN, 12 Feb. 2022
• Machen’s father was an impecunious clergyman, his mother an invalid, and their son a solitary but not lonely child.
  — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020
• To draft an answer, Johnson goes back to his famous solitaries in an attempt to identify a common denominator.
  — Kathryn Hughes, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020

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