noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
need
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A writer needs solitude yet not too much of it.
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My activist soul once welcomed the stuffed mailbox and ringing phone as opportunities, despite my writerly need for solitude .
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I needed solitude - so where better to find it than my island?
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I find it wise to let people know that I am writing, that I need solitude .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ella loved the quiet solitude of her weekends.
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He spent his free time in solitude , reading or walking in the hills.
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I need solitude in order to paint my pictures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How strange to emerge from my solitude .
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It was the solitude growing around me, growing under me: this I couldn't take.
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Kitty stood against the back wall, stony, her face blotchy from tears wept in solitude .
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Nor did he enjoy the mass, the open aggression of it, being so used to solitude , to hidden deceits.
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We have in prospect eight months of solitude , clinging to the edge of the world's coldest, remotest continent.