Sentence examples for solitary act from inspiring English sources
'solitary act' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe an action that is done alone, without assistance. For example, "He often went out to the beach for a solitary act of reflection."
A solitary act of defiance?
Suicide is only apparently a solitary act.
Writing is a sustained monologue, a profoundly solitary act.
Soldiering, particularly in the Civil War, was not a solitary act, but something done in community.
With new technology, the solitary act of reading has become a social activity.
He feared that this solitary act of rebellion would set back his career.
Writing and reading are famously solitary acts; the loneliness of literature is expected, even embraced.
And we all know how social beings tend to regard solitary acts – as perversities, if not outright perversions.
They include the strictly sociological: that Nordic crime writers chronicle the collapse of community spirit into a competitive free-for-all punctuated by solitary acts of mayhem.
WB Yeats attributed to his father the remark that "Poetry is the social act of the solitary man"; with the creative-writing programmes and the Facebook links embedded in digitised texts encouraging readers to "share" their insights, writing and reading have become the solitary acts of social beings.
While coaching staffs can signal pitcher or batter to pursue certain tactics, the execution of the play itself is a series of solitary acts.
