[ UK /sˈə‍ʊlə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈsoʊˌɫoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a flight in which the aircraft pilot is unaccompanied
  2. any activity that is performed alone without assistance
  3. a musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment)
VERB
  1. fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers
  2. perform a piece written for a single instrument
ADJECTIVE
  1. composed or performed by a single voice or instrument
    a passage for solo clarinet
ADVERB
  1. without anybody else or anything else
    the pillar stood alone, supporting nothing
    he flew solo
    the child stayed home alone
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How To Use solo In A Sentence

  • Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
  • Solomon himself impersonated the phallic god Baal-Rimmon, "Lord of the Pomegranate," when he was united with his divine bride, the mysterious Shulamite, and drank the juice of her pomegranate Song of Solomon 8:2. Archive 2008-03-01
  • The first, built by Solomon (1012 B.C.) appears from the Biblical description [6] to have combined Egyptian conceptions (successive courts, lofty entrance-pylons, the Sanctuary and the sekos or “Holy of Holies”) with A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
  • Everyone needed time to take stock after the most prestigious solo race had turned into a demolition derby. Times, Sunday Times
  • Normally, at times likes these, Montgomerie's nerves are so taut that it would be possible to play a guitar solo on them.
  • The shakuhachi is usually played solo or with the koto.
  • The ensemble playing is lock tight, the soloists are eloquent; the seven pieces (five of them composed by group members) are literate and stimulating.
  • Neither Chout, turned down initially by Diaghilev, nor the piano concerto, rejected comprehensively by its muse Paul Wittgenstein the LPO's soloist was Leon Fleisher, quite banished that impression of mechanical note-spinning. LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
  • And but so then the solo hits and you'd be way hard-pressed to call it anything besides countrified, wouldn't you?
  • Despite the fact that the soloists just use these two chords, the improvisations are melodically and rhythmically rich - a signpost of contemporary mainstream jazz.
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