Example sentences for: solitude

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

  • Octavio Paz, much quoted, disparagingly discusses the phenomenon of the pachuco in his book The Labyrinth of Solitude, published in English in 1961.

  • Out of the way beaches where you can find some solitude tend to lie down narrow tortuous roads in remote parts of the island.

  • Then we take a similar journey with Jackie (Watson), who, denied a proper childhood and family life, pines away in foreign capitals, behaves with increasing waywardness and vulgarity (she adopts a bogus Continental accent), and expires in near solitude, with only her loyal sister to remind her of God's love.

  • In The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico , Paz drew on his reading of Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche to explore the Mexican cult of death, the phenomenon of the macho, and explosive rituals such as the fiesta.

  • "A writer should be a guerrilla fighter, should bear solitude and know that he is a marginal being," he once told an interviewer.


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