home-alone

adjective

1. informal.
   (esp of a young child) left in a house, flat, etc unattended

Example Sentences

Waiting there, I thought, was safer than walking home alone.

From The Daily Beast

The vampire at the heart of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night neither sparkles nor sleeps in coffins.

From The Daily Beast

A short film followed, featuring a girl, of course, walking home alone at night.

From The Daily Beast

I walked home alone, in the dark, all the unseen voices of that evening still ringing in my ears.

From The Daily Beast

She too spends the days at home alone, weakened by the medication she takes.

From The Daily Beast

She thought, in her simplicity, that the doctor must have died, since Alessandro was riding home alone.

From Project Gutenberg

The farmer was home alone, but he knew how to make some hot coffee, which he speedily offered to all of the cadets.

From Project Gutenberg

Then dined at home alone, my mind pleased with business, but sad for the absence of my wife.

From Project Gutenberg

Having satisfied herself that it was a choice morsel, but too large for her to carry home alone, she set off at once to seek help.

From Project Gutenberg

I made up my mind to one thing, I should give up my ticket at Nassau and go home alone by rail through Florida.

From Project Gutenberg