Example sentences of "live a solitary [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now Jackson lived a solitary existence .
2 Sadie lived a solitary life for about three years without even the company of other dogs .
3 He ended up in the village of Hampole near Doncaster , where he became the spiritual director of the local anchoress Margaret Kirkby , who lived a solitary life in a cell next to the Church , and the nuns of the enclosed Cistercian convent .
4 The larvae live in kin groups and are aposematic , while the adults disperse to live a solitary existence and are cryptic .
5 Any elderly crone , who happened to be ugly or misshapen enough to have repelled all potential husbands , and who was therefore forced to live a solitary life with no children of her own , often as an outcast on the edge of the village , was desperately in need of companionship .
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