left alone

Example Sentences

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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

Bruce Dern plays their caretaker, a man who refuses the order to destroy them and is left alone on the ship, tending the plants and teaching his small drone companions to help him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 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

His only apparent ambition, like Dave’s, was to be left alone; though, as Buck was afterward to learn, each of them possessed one other and even more vital ambition.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London