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Example sentences for "stands alone"

  • Where he stands alone is in a fantastic fertility of divagation and comment which is as much his own as the clear, neat directness of Macaulay is his.

  • In prose fiction, as we have seen, it stands alone.

  • Mix the cream and sugar with a glass of noyau, and beat it with a whisk or rods, till it stands alone.

  • Make the icing of the whites of eight eggs, a large tea-spoonful of powdered loaf sugar, and six drops of essence of lemon, beaten all together till it stands alone.

  • To what does the adjective usually relate, when it stands alone after a finite verb?

  • With Anacreon ceased the species of lyric poetry in which he excelled; indeed, he stands alone in it, and the tender softness of his song was soon drowned by the louder tones of the choral poetry.

  • The "Song of the Bell" stands alone as a successful attempt to unite poetry with the interests of daily life and industry.

  • The grandeur of its language, the elevation of its sentiments, and the sympathy of its pathos, commend it to all classes and all hearts; and of its kind of composition it stands alone in English literature.

  • Hudibras is the very prince of burlesques; it stands alone of its kind, and still retains its popularity.

  • These have a pretence of history; but Hamlet, with hardly that pretence, stands alone supreme in varied excellence.

  • B when it stands alone is of necessity far more intelligent than that of the unnamed writer mentioned already, yet we believe that his implied confidence is scarcely the less misplaced.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stands alone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    careful not; coniferous trees; during the; engage them; forty year; laying duties; leaves usually; little behind; live well; man could; marine fishes; mountain stream; nolle prosequi; permanent resident; poor sinners; possible thing; sexual life; slay them; stands alone; stands pledged; stands upon; thus making; whose portrait; will destroy