adj
By oneself, solitary.
I can't ask for help because I am alone.
It is not good that the man should be alone.
By oneself, solitary.
Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc.
Senator Craddock wants to abolish the estate tax, and she's not alone.
I always organize my Halloween candy before eating it. Am I alone in this?
Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
There are proofs enough in History, and first that beautiful Hynes, so much beloved by Charles the seventh King of France, who valued the alone possession of her Love at so high a rate, that[…]
God, […] by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
Mere; consisting of nothing further.
and therefore all Killing, Banishing, Fining, Imprisoning, and other such things, which Men are afflicted with, for the alone exercise of their Conscience, or difference in Worship or Opinion, proceedeth from the spirit of Cain, the Murderer, and is contrary to the Truth;
adv
By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
She walked home alone.
Without outside help.
The job was too hard for me to do alone.
Focus adverb, typically modifying a noun and occurring immediately after it.
The president alone has the power to initiate a nuclear launch.
They must be told, that the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the People alone;
Focus adverb, typically modifying a noun and occurring immediately after it.
Oral antibiotics alone won't clear the infection.
Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character of purely economical questions, which admit of being decided on economical premises alone.
Focus adverb, typically modifying a noun and occurring immediately after it.
Her wardrobe is huge. She has three racks for blazers alone.
The first sentence alone sold me on the book.