left alone

Example Sentences

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In the first case, you want to celebrate; in the second, you want to be left alone.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Don’t converts have the right to be left alone by the government?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

We are left alone, but we aren’t lonely.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

"I think a lot of country folk just want to be left alone to breed their sheep and hang their moles and resent people who come to the countryside with different views," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

Hardly surprisingly, the alliance did not last, and, following defeats of the English Navy by the Dutch, after 1672 France was left alone to invade The Netherlands.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin