solitarily
Example Sentences
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For most of two nights, Lewis’ remains lay solitarily in the middle of the Capitol Rotunda with that military honor guard standing vigil.
From Fox News ● Aug. 30, 2020
Indeed, in one of the novel’s most enduring images, that coffin is what the narrator Ishmael clings to in solitarily surviving the Pequod’s destruction.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2017
No longer does Belle sit solitarily reading to disinterested sheep — “Oh isn’t this amazing” — she’s actively trying to get young women involved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2017
The stage of consciousness on which life's drama is solitarily played for every human being is too circumscribed to expand all at once for the reception of a strange and unexpected image.
From The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees
Sometimes there would sound the faint tinkle of a belated hansom, chiming solitarily, as though weary of frivolity.
From Nights in London by Thomas Burke
