How to Use solitary in a Sentence
- A solitary house stood on top of the cliff.
- He took a solitary walk on the beach.
- He's a very solitary man.
- Most cats are solitary creatures.
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None of the solitary bees make honey.
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Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2025
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My whole writing life had been solitary.
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Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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His life is solitary and frugal.
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ABC News,
10 Mar. 2026
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At first, in that indigo hour, there was just a solitary bird.
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Mark Johanson,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Dec. 2023
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Adams had fought the limits on solitary passed by the council.
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Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Red pandas are most active at dusk and dawn, and are tree-dwelling and solitary.
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Maggie Menderski,
The Courier-Journal,
7 Feb. 2024
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Roughly 75% of bee species are solitary ground nesters.
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Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Apr. 2026
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In those public spaces, art wasn’t solitary.
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Yamlek Mojica,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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For most authors, writing a book starts as a solitary mission.
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Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
22 Mar. 2026
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There wasn’t a lot of solitary time in my life up until 2020.
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Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
27 Apr. 2023
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Some experiences are solitary, but many can be done with friends.
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Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
9 Sep. 2022
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Even a solitary bamboo shutter drawn between friends may cause heartache.
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Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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Reading stops being a solitary act.
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Julie Finch,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Music became both refuge and purpose for the solitary boy.
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Jordan Runtagh,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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But a solitary carpenter bee just wants to build a home for her family.
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Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
6 Oct. 2025
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But a solitary carpenter bee just wants to build a home for her family.
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Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
7 June 2026
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Because the truth is that for ten whole years my writing has consisted of a solitary project.
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Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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In the scenes that follow her on her solitary journey, there is no dialogue.
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Polen Ly
text By Waverly Colville,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2023
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Making music can be a fairly solitary process.
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Alma Rota,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
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Joel Edmundson scored the hosts’ solitary goal.
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Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Many native solitary bees use the hollow or pithy plant stems for shelter and nesting.
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Benjamin Vogt,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Oct. 2025
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Yet the Kremlin’s battle with the West has turned solitary.
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Nina Khrushcheva,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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But, of the twenty thousand or so species of bees, about eighteen thousand are solitary.
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Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2025
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After twenty-one months in solitary, he was transferred to a standard cell.
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James Verini,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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In the past year, however, she’s taken on two projects that are not solitary journeys at all.
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Jordan Kisner,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2024
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While gray squirrels are solitary, flying squirrels may live in colonies of four to five squirrels.
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Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
- The prisoner was kept in solitary.
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One man was taken to solitary to pressure him to end his hunger strike.
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María Inés Taracena,
The New Republic,
12 Apr. 2023
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How has your thinking about reading as a solitary or a social act evolved during this time?
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Eve Bowen,
The New York Review of Books,
5 Mar. 2022
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Highsmith was also a solitary who spent most of her life in Switzerland among cats.
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Sarah Fay,
Longreads,
17 Mar. 2020
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A couple teach their young son to ride his bike in the deserted parking lot, while a solitary can rattles down the road.
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Marcus Barnes,
Billboard,
23 Oct. 2020
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While one solitary dropped shot left him just three shots shy of Justin Rose in the lead, the emotions were too much for Kim.
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Ben Morse,
CNN,
9 Apr. 2021
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Witnesses at the hearing told the committee that any time in solitary can be life-altering.
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NBC News,
28 Apr. 2022
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Machen’s father was an impecunious clergyman, his mother an invalid, and their son a solitary but not lonely child.
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Michael Dirda,
The New York Review of Books,
28 May 2020
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With its sprawling freeways and solitary, car-centric culture, Los Angeles is not known as an easy place to make friends.
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Los Angeles Times,
4 Aug. 2022
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Four pairs of slippers had appeared outside a cell two down from me, hinting at four inmates who most likely had just come out of solitary to be kept in a large cell together.
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Hossein Derakhshan,
WIRED,
21 July 2023
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Their solitary and, as Sonya sees it, sublime, life involves many mini-adventures and nesting at home in front of the TV.
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Mary Cadden,
USA TODAY,
8 Dec. 2021
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Now in his 40s, Frank has been in prison for almost his whole adult life, spending 17 years in solitary for assaulting two of his fellow inmates.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
25 Jan. 2026
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To draft an answer, Johnson goes back to his famous solitaries in an attempt to identify a common denominator.
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Kathryn Hughes,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2020
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In retaliation, Cohen says he was sent back to prison and spent 16 days in solitary until a federal judge intervened.
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Dan Berman,
CNN,
12 Feb. 2022
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Nearly four of those years were spent in solitary at ICE’s Northwest Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, where Daniel died on March 7, 2024, the report says.
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Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
18 Sep. 2025
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