Example Sentences

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For most of two nights, Lewis’ remains lay solitarily in the middle of the Capitol Rotunda with that military honor guard standing vigil.

From Fox News • Aug. 30, 2020

Indeed, in one of the novel’s most enduring images, that coffin is what the narrator Ishmael clings to in solitarily surviving the Pequod’s destruction.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2017

No longer does Belle sit solitarily reading to disinterested sheep — “Oh isn’t this amazing” — she’s actively trying to get young women involved.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2017

Men moved about solitarily through the night, each saying bitterly to his own heart, 'Would that it had been one of us.'

From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by Hunter, William Wilson

The stage of consciousness on which life's drama is solitarily played for every human being is too circumscribed to expand all at once for the reception of a strange and unexpected image.

From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)