companionless

Example Sentences

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When Mr. Gunn tweeted that companionless is “one of my favorite ways to see a film,” he sparked an online discussion about the pros and cons of going it alone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2018

He was companionless until Indianapolis, where he abandoned his car and got into a friend’s.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2017

Sitting companionless at a table patently designed for four, I composed the portrait of my meal with some care, both to entice my viewers and to deride my circumstances.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2015

Where I was, in fact, was companionless, far away from where I had gotten off the trail, and impossibly adrift from a touchingly optimistic hiking schedule I had drawn up nearly a year before.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

He overworked to a dreadful extent, and then, by gradual cultivation, he had so elevated his faculties above those of his associates, that he left himself companionless.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund