Sentence examples for needing time alone from inspiring English sources

The parents are more aware of their adult children needing time alone, whether it's for hanging out with their friends or with their significant other.

We don't get Boys' Night Out or Girls' Night Out by virtue of needing time alone with our same-sex friends because, well, we're in a relationship with someone of the same sex.

Couples need time alone to renew their relationship.

I need time alone, quiet time alone, to do my job well.

They need time alone but are not hermits (another matter altogether).

When the lovers need time alone, they steal away on a bogus lookout mission and make love in the snow, observed only by rabbits.

Then, last week, when the governor told her he needed time alone to write, she had specifically warned him not to see his mistress.

Instead of understanding that Jackson needed time alone with her entourage to think about her housing options, Corcoran blitzed her with a sales pitch.

When I met Neil Gaiman and we embarked upon our cautious let's-date-each-other phase, I made it really clear that I was always going to need time alone, to create, be with my own thoughts, songs and work.

One summer, when Michael was 8, his parents needed time alone to repair their marriage, and they sent him to spend the summer with his 3 older cousins--Georgia, Annalee, and Grace--at the farm.

As a young man, I tried Europe, but the woman I was meeting, on our second day in Paris, said she needed time alone, and then went off to Barcelona with somebody else.