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How to use solitude in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun

Solitude means aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself. Example: “Cranks like Rousseau made solitude glamorous, but sensible people agreed that it was really terrible.”

Examples of solitude by meaning

nounAloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.

  • Cranks like Rousseau made solitude glamorous, but sensible people agreed that it was really terrible.1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 193

More sentences with solitude

  • Leaving the world behind, I’d wallow in frosty solitude and chocolate torta.2012, Steven Parlato, The Namesake, Merit Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry torta
  • He liked reading the paper and partaking of a dippy egg in solitude.2004, Bernadette Strachan, chapter 20, in The Reluctant Landlady, London: Hodder & Stoughton, page 230. From the entry dippy
  • Far better make a clean break and remain in solitude—the natural climate for man.1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και…. From the entry clean break
  • All I ask is to be left alone to moulder away in solitude.1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XV, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC, page 235. From the entry moulder
  • The solitude and the savage freedom filled his heart with life and buoyancy.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Through the Valley of the Shadow”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi]…. From the entry consciousness
  • There is a distinct sense of freedom in the solitude of the night.1912, Alexander Berkman, chapter 6, in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. From the entry noisome
  • She advocates radical solitude: “Cut yourself off.” People go wild for the excuse to be selfish in the name of self-care.2023 April 30, Claire Luchette, “CHRYSALIS By Anna Metcalfe”, in New York Times Book Review, page 22. From the entry alonement
  • My predecessors generally preferred to live and work in the monastery proper, but I like the solitude of the caves.2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry archimandrite
  • I did not know that the price ofa stay in its Decembral solitude was a game with Milord.2004, Jerry Griswold, The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook, page 167. From the entry Decembral
  • I dreamed my daffodilled lawn, paper Romances, long walks down to the beach for tea, sighed my solitude, slow.1989, Susan Ioannou, “Eileen and Jean”, in Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, editor, Celebrating Canadian Women: Prose and Poetry By and About…. From the entry daffodilled
  • Montreal, where French and English have not merged but coexist in ‘two solitudes,’ has Latin flair but British solidity.1976, J. Wreford Watson, “Review: The Development of the Canadian City”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 142, number 3, page 509. From the entry two solitudes
  • The solitude has driven you off your hinge.1970, Keith Laumer, The World Shuffler, page 120. From the entry off one's hinge
  • Philosophically, Canada is a land of "two solitudes."1951, John A. Irving, “Philosophical Trends in Canada Between 1850 and 1950”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 12…. From the entry two solitudes
  • Kronfeld describes the narcists as “mostly reserved, tender, often delicate cool natures who love solitude and are literally self-sufficient.”1931, Eugen Kahn, Psychopathic Personalities, page 125. From the entry narcist
  • The infection does not spread from one to another among the troops, and barcoo rot affects men living in solitude.1917, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Journal of tropical Medicine And Hygiene, volumes 20-21, page 228. From the entry Barcoo rot
  • A thousand random fragrances of morn Float from lush solitudes and leafy dells, While summer's sunwings rest on lake and tree.1910, William Dowsing, Sheffield Vignettes: A Series of Sonnets, page 3. From the entry sunwing
  • 'The Azalea,' with its desolating contrast of perfumed warmth and chill solitude, touches even more consummately the actual reality of suffering.1908, The Quarterly Review, John Murray, pages 375-376. From the entry consummately
  • From that solitude, full of despair and terror, he was torn out brutally, with kicks and blows, passive, sunk in hebetude.1904, Joseph Conrad, chapter 9, in Nostromo. From the entry hebetude
  • Sadly deoculated by his enemy, the Genji, after defeat, Kagekiyo lives out his days in darkened solitude, visited finally by his long-lost daughter.2002, Timon Screech, The Lens Within the Heart. From the entry deoculate
  • And we can sense that, though permanently crestfallen, there is something in his nature, which makes him accept solitude, that is rather fearless.1995, Roger Lewis, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, page 743. From the entry crestfallen
  • His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades.1978, John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry bodge
  • But it must be in solitude.1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic. From the entry salad days
  • She waked often in the solitude of the night, imaging the bride and bridegroom on the track of rapture, following the unwaning star.1920, May Edginton, Married Life. From the entry unwaning
  • While the central focus of their lives was the work they did in solitude, they clearly enjoyed being with others who are on the same frequency.2015, Steve Silberman, “Introduction”, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New…. From the entry convivial
  • His parents — a restless, titanically self-involved father and a mother who cultivated her inner life in strict solitude — seem a much likelier source for his condition.2009 May 24, Laura Miller, “Faking It”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2021. From the entry likely

Meaning of solitude

  1. noun Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.
  2. noun A lonely or deserted place.

Full definition of solitude

Questions about solitude in a sentence

How do you use solitude in a sentence?
Solitude is used as a noun. For example: “Cranks like Rousseau made solitude glamorous, but sensible people agreed that it was really terrible.”
What is a short sentence with solitude?
“But it must be in solitude.”
What does solitude mean?
Solitude means aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.

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