SOLITUDE in a Sentence

Learn SOLITUDE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

107 example sentences for SOLITUDE, such as:

1. Loving you is price of solitude.
2. Now it was languor, and all but solitude.
3. Time orbit we just one solitude of the subway.
4. Condemned in life's infernal mine, condemned in solitude to pine.
5. The scientist has spent six months in the solitudes of the antarctic.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOLITUDE
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solitude
 n.  state of being alone; seclusion; lonely or secluded place
Classic Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  Condemned in life's infernal mine, condemned in solitude to pine.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
2  So much the greater must have been the solitude of her heart, and her need of some one on whom to bestow it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
3  Thus easily did Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
4  They had seen no one, near or distant, for a long time; and the solitude remained unbroken.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
5  Connie went for walks in the park, and in the woods that joined the park, and enjoyed the solitude and the mystery, kicking the brown leaves of autumn, and picking the primroses of spring.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  He resented the intrusion; he cherished his solitude as his only and last freedom in life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  The industrial noises broke the solitude, the sharp lights, though unseen, mocked it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  Now it was languor, and all but solitude.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  By degrees they fell off, one by one; and, for an hour, in the dead of night, the street was left to solitude and darkness.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
10  She had no resources for solitude; and inheriting a considerable share of the Elliot self-importance, was very prone to add to every other distress that of fancying herself neglected and ill-used.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  She was ashamed of herself, quite ashamed of being so nervous, so overcome by such a trifle; but so it was, and it required a long application of solitude and reflection to recover her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  Her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  Half an hour's solitude and reflection might have tranquillized her; but the ten minutes only which now passed before she was interrupted, with all the restraints of her situation, could do nothing towards tranquillity.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
14  As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
15  But they remained, and established themselves; and the lonely person who hitherto had been queen of the solitude did not at present seem likely to return.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Example Sentence:
1  Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.
2  Cherishing his solitude, the recluse wants to shun the company of other human beings.
3  She learns that she can feel happiness in solitude, at least for a period of time.
4  She sought solitude, and avoided us when in gaiety and unrestrained affection we met in a family circle.
5  He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquility becomes free from fear and free from sin.
6  Time orbit we just one solitude of the subway.
7  Loving you is price of solitude.
8  It provides one with a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude.
9  Afterward, they return home to their modest apartments, where some tick off the days in solitude - and poverty.
10  The scientist has spent six months in the solitudes of the antarctic.