left alone

Example Sentences

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In the first case, you want to celebrate; in the second, you want to be left alone.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Don’t converts have the right to be left alone by the government?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

And we spoke with a middle-aged woman with schizophrenia and panic disorder who lives with her brother’s family because she can’t hold down a job and fears being left alone in a nursing home.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

However, Neville accepts that a portfolio with a 10-year time horizon can’t just be left alone — and that, because “a theme’s unfolding is rarely linear, we should at least consider adjustments.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

Even though today he was going with Nali to Gallup for more food, he wanted to be left alone to read his book.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young