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

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

From Salon • May 9, 2026

By contrast, shifting the contribution to a Roth IRA will not cause any taxation if left alone until 59 ½, and can afford you some tax-free access before then if you need it.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 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

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