alone
What is the Definition of alone?
Adjective:
- isolated from others
- lacking companions or companionship
- exclusive of anyone or anything else
- radically distinctive and without equal
Adverb:
- without any others being included or involved
- without anybody else or anything else
How can I use alone in a sentence?
There was no reason on earth that Professor McGonagall would accept for their being out of bed and creeping around the school in the dead of night, let alone being up the tallest astronomy tower, which was out-of-bounds except for classes.
Good — well, look, Neville, we have got to be somewhere, we will see you later — Do not leave me! said Neville, scrambling to his feet, I do not want to stay here alone, the Bloody Baron's been past twice already.
On their way down to the Great Hall for the Halloween feast, Harry and Ron overheard Parvati Patil telling her friend Lavender that Hermione was crying in the girls' bathroom and wanted to be left alone.
Harry had learned from Uncle Vernon that people liked to be left alone while they did this, but it was very difficult, he would never had so many questions in his life.
The baby began to cry when he didn’t see his mother nearby, needing reassurance and comfort quickly restored by her presence alone. - Младенец начал плакать, когда не увидел рядом свою мать, нуждаясь в успокоении и комфорте, который быстро восстановился только благодаря ее присутствию.
Other meanings of alone (synonyms, cognates).
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