I'm dining alone

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

I'm dining alone but rather than being shoved at a little table down the back, I'm given a nice spacious table overlooking the water and lots of magazines to read, lest I become gloomy with existential angst after an hour in my own company.

The first time I opened Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation," I was dining alone at the Palm, trying to enjoy a rib-eye steak cooked medium-rare.

I stopped in for a late lunch and, as I was dining alone, headed to the long wooden bar, under an assortment of mismatched Art Deco lights and a 14-foot faded tin ceiling.

Since I was dining alone, he won my attention by telling me he would open anything on the list -- "well, anything up to $1,000" -- and sell it by the glass.

I think poor old Monty will be dining alone tonight!

My date and I began chatting about restaurants with the man who was dining alone at the next table.

"I think it's cool," said a man named Brad, who was dining alone in the restaurant and swapped his opinion for partial anonymity.

Fun to read if you are dining alone.

But so far, Mr. King will be dining alone.

Get it wrong, you'll be confined to the last refuge of the insufferable: You'll be dining alone.

She's dining alone tonight, in the two-bedroom condominium she recently moved to from her home in Cambridge, Mass.