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If one person is a____ with another person, or if two or more people are alone, they are together, without anyone else present .If one person is alone with another person, or if two or more people are alone, they are together, without anyone else present .
I couldn't imagine why he would want to be alone with me.
My brother and I were alone with Vincent.
word alone
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adjective
When you are alone, you are not with any other people.
There is nothing so frightening as to be alone in a combat situation.
He was all alone in the middle of the hall.
She has lived alone in this house for almost five years now.
He was sitting alone at a table reading a newspaper.
If one person is alone with another person, or if two or more people are alone, they are together, without anyone else present .
I couldn't imagine why he would want to be alone with me.
My brother and I were alone with Vincent.
If you say that you are alone or feel alone, you mean that nobody who is with you, or nobody at all, cares about you.
Never in her life had she felt so alone, so abandoned.
He found himself alone in a hostile world.
If someone is alone in doing something, they are the only person doing it, and so are different from other people.
If you sometimes feel pain at the front of your shins after running, you are far from alone.
Am I alone in thinking that this scandal should finish his career?
Alone among the great Victorian novelists, Hardy lived long enough to see his work adapted for the screen.
I alone was sane, I thought, in a world of crazy people.
adverb
You say that one person or thing alone does something when you are emphasizing that only one person or thing is involved .
You alone should determine what is right for you.
They were convicted on forensic evidence alone.
If you say that one person or thing alone is responsible for part of an amount, you are emphasizing the size of that part and the size of the total amount.
The BBC alone is sending 300 technicians, directors and commentators.
Megastars like Jack Nicholson, who made £50 million from Batman alone, are unlikely to be affected.
When someone does something alone, they do it without help from other people.
Bringing up a child alone should give you a sense of achievement.
He was working alone and did not have an accomplice.
cefr-level A2

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