left alone

Example Sentences

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She wants to earn money as an artist; Cricket just wants to be left alone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

And we spoke with a middle-aged woman with schizophrenia and panic disorder who lives with her brother’s family because she can’t hold down a job and fears being left alone in a nursing home.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

However, Neville accepts that a portfolio with a 10-year time horizon can’t just be left alone — and that, because “a theme’s unfolding is rarely linear, we should at least consider adjustments.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

As for Adams himself, without Jefferson as a colleague, with a Federalist cabinet filled with men loyal to Hamilton, he was left alone with Abigail, the only collaborator he could truly trust.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis