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228 examples of Solitary in a sentence

These were typically not solitary efforts.
It happened again about 120 or a 140 million years ago when some solitary wasps began creating little simple, primitive nests, or hives.
Anyway, but I guess my point is that all of these enterprises are engaging to me in their multiplicity, but as I've presented them to you today, they're actually solitary enterprises, and so pretty soon I want to commune with other people, and so I'm delighted that in fact I get to compose works for them.
We're not a solitary mind built out of properties that kept it alive in the world independent of other people.
He was the one who said that life in a state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
The frequent furl of five fingers, the chips in my teeth come from biting at all the many things a solitary hand cannot open.
And at that particular point in time, this was one of the few solitary computers.
And then throw in the fact that the octopus is a solitary creature, and suddenly, we have ourselves a real cephalopod fight.
And the third thing I said on that beach was, it looks like the most solitary endeavor in the world, and in many ways, of course, it is.
Dr. Ma Thida, a leading human rights activist who had nearly died in prison and had spent many years in solitary confinement, told me she was grateful to her jailers for the time she had had to think, for the wisdom she had gained, for the chance to hone her meditation skills.
And because of my activity, I landed in solitary confinement for seven and a half years out of my incarceration.
Now as I see it, solitary confinement is one of the most inhumane and barbaric places you can find yourself, but find myself I did.
He spent five years in solitary, and I met him because I gave a speech at San Quentin, and he's articulate and he's rather easy on the eyes because he's buff.
Before I ever turned 18, I spent approximately 400 days on Rikers Island, and to add to that I spent almost 300 days in solitary confinement, and let me tell you this: Screaming at the top of your lungs all day on your cell door or screaming at the top of your lungs out the window, it gets tiring.
When I was on Rikers Island, the huge thing was solitary confinement.
Solitary confinement was originally designed to break a person mentally, physically and emotionally.
The U.S. Attorney General recently released a report stating that they're going to ban solitary confinement in New York state for teens.
One thing that kept me sane while I was in solitary confinement was reading.
I'm just a solitary scholar.
Spindly trees, rusted gates, crumbling stone, a solitary mourner— these things come to mind when we think of cemeteries.
CMUs aren't solitary confinement, but they radically restrict all of these to levels that meet or exceed the most extreme prisons in the United States.
Prisoners were locked down in solitary for 22 hours a day.
They're nocturnal, solitary, very elusive animals, and we got started getting very basic data about these animals.
Throughout time, cats were simultaneously solitary predators of smaller animals and prey for larger carnivores.
They developed through time as both solitary predators that hunted and killed to eat, and stealthy prey that hid and escaped to survive.
And the combination of those searches kept leading me to her talk on the dangers of a single story, on what happens when we have a solitary lens through which to understand certain groups of people, and it is the perfect talk.
Facts like prisoners in the US can be kept in solitary confinement cells that are smaller than the size of an average parking space.
They are never left to live solitary lives.
That's how I ended up in solitary, because I let my feelings be known.
Once again, I wound up in solitary confinement for stabbing another prisoner nearly 30 times.
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