left alone

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

We are left alone, but we aren’t lonely.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

Bruce Dern plays their caretaker, a man who refuses the order to destroy them and is left alone on the ship, tending the plants and teaching his small drone companions to help him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 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

Most girls would have been terrified to be left alone, but Nhamo rather liked it.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer