Sentence examples for alone instead from inspiring English sources

When they watched games on television, they tended to watch them alone instead of with friends.

But as Dr. Collins explains, this is like listening to the string section alone instead of the entire orchestra.

June went home alone instead of spending the night with Wigman; during the night he died of a heart attack.

Do you agree with Mr. Wozniak's suggestion of working alone instead of as part of a committee?

So sometimes I would just wander off alone instead of joining in, and try to make myself inconspicuous.

Mull life over till nothing's left of it, soldier the remaining yards alone, instead of fucking everything up for everybody — again.

We don't get to find out how the world would look otherwise, if some dictator or madman had been left alone instead.

He coaches himself, running alone instead of with an elite training group here in Northern California, two hours above Sacramento, where the flat land of the Central Valley begins to buck and heave like a rodeo bull.

They deliberately split their communities once they exceed 150 individuals because, they maintain, you cannot run a community of more than 150 people by peer pressure alone: instead, you need a police force.

We know why, and at least one New Yorker -- this one -- has to wish that Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani had just left things alone instead of launching another retaliatory round in the couple's bitter divorce.

These are not capable of running on electricity alone; instead, they have an electric motor that gives an assist to the rather small gasoline engine when more power is needed.