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all by one's self
adjective as in friendless
adverb as in independently
Example Sentences
This room will be rather dismal all by one's self, and I don't know how I'm to go about, up and down, fetch and carry, and work as you are able to do....
"I am not quite sure as to Margaret," replied Amy; "but I think Dora does, though she will not acknowledge it; and, by and by, I dare say, she will love her as I do, and then Miss Morton will be happier; for it must be very dreadful, papa, to live all by one's self, without any person to care for one."
The worst thing, usually, is the loneliness; holding it down in a shack, three years or more, all by one's self.
One falls into rough ways all by one’s self.”
It is better to go slow, to wait, to get information bit by bit and all by one's self.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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