companionless
Example Sentences
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When Mr. Gunn tweeted that companionless is “one of my favorite ways to see a film,” he sparked an online discussion about the pros and cons of going it alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2018
He was companionless until Indianapolis, where he abandoned his car and got into a friend’s.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2017
Sitting companionless at a table patently designed for four, I composed the portrait of my meal with some care, both to entice my viewers and to deride my circumstances.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2015
Where I was, in fact, was companionless, far away from where I had gotten off the trail, and impossibly adrift from a touchingly optimistic hiking schedule I had drawn up nearly a year before.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
“In the old days,” he said, “we too, my wife and I, were wont to go a-courting, while others, just as we are now, would watch us, alone and companionless by the lake-side.”
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster
