Modifies a noun

• confinement: All five were kept in solitary confinement for three nights.

• bee: Down the garden: a solitary bee; frost in the shade.

• wasp: So do solitary wasps and bees, and butterflies such as the grayling, small heath and common blue.

• nodule: Analytical decision model for the cost-effective management of solitary pulmonary nodules.

• metastasis: Occasionally surgical resection of isolated solitary distant metastases ( usually lung ) offers the prospect of prolonged long-term survival.

• tract: Parasympathetic activity can also respond to the hypothalamus, which controls the nucleus of the solitary tract.

Modifying Another Word

• essentially: Interesting for a man wedded to cycling and long distance walking, who claims to be an essentially solitary person.

• mostly: This is a mostly solitary bird which is primarily ground feeding.

• in: Ros talks to Pat in another cell in solitary through the toilet bowl to try to find out why she is in solitary.

• mainly: Outside the breeding season this is a mainly solitary bird.

• usually: They are usually solitary, only coming together to mate.

• fairly: Writing can be a lonely task and it is one of the few jobs in the industry that is a fairly solitary activity.

Infinitive complement

• tell: Jessie gets a note to Julie in solitary to tell her that Lexie is in danger.

Used with adjective complement

• become: He formed a lair somewhere in the forest, and became solitary.

• live: I think I have one friend of my own, but am not sure; and till I _am_ sure, I live solitary.

• seem: Equally, the device of raining down trash seems too solitary a gesture to convey an overall sense of chaos.

• remain: The plant usually remains solitary in habitat, but will clump slowly in cultivation.

Preposition: in

• nature: Although wild leopards are quite solitary in nature, in captivity they seem to appreciate company.

Preposition: for

• hour: During the cell search, the knife is found in Myra's mattress: she is sent to solitary for 24 hours.