Example sentences for: solitary

How can you use “solitary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The paper said Israel could not "act permissively toward those who are entrusted with its deepest secrets and then decide to breach their commitment," but it deplored the fact that Vanunu has been held in strict solitary confinement for the past 12 years on the insistence of Israeli security services.

  • Vice is rarely a solitary invader; it usually brings with it a frightful train of followers.

  • The New York Times discussed his "major fractures" and "solitary confinement."

  • There were 42,096 solitary renal transplant recipients in the United States Renal Data System transplanted from 1 July 1994 to 30 June 1998, of whom 39,628 had complete enough information to calculate survival times.

  • Two days earlier, Hugo Young, chief columnist of the liberal Guardian and normally very sympathetic to Blair, had written: "What is unfolding between London and Washington shows the same submissive respect by the lesser for the stronger partner as prevailed in the Reagan-Thatcher years, highlighted now by Britain's solitary, potentially catastrophic, part in a joint venture against Iraq."


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