Lone

//loʊn//

"Lone" in a Sentence (22 examples)

He put up a brave and lone struggle, but up against such heavy odds he couldn't get his business plan accepted.

"Now that I think of it, where's Tanimoto?" "Playing the lone wolf, as always."

When the tip was a lone dime thrown into a glass, the waitress would raise the glass while hastily preparing the table for the next customer. She would then spill the water and that would be it.

A lone sailboat is sailing against the wind.

Anyhow, it's the truth that on this snowy night a lone old woman was sitting on the side of the road.

Tens of male and female students were drawing a lone - completely nude - male model standing on a platform.

Dozens of male and female students were drawing a lone, completely nude male model standing on a platform.

All of a sudden, the front door bell rang and the dark shadow of a lone man slipped in quietly.

He's a lone wolf.

I am perhaps a bit of a lone wolf.

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a lone traveler or watcher

When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.

The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

The director of a school in Thailand's central province of Sing Buri is in police custody under suspicion of being the lone perpetrator of a gold shop robbery at a mall in Lop Buri province on January 9th, during which three people, including a two-year old^([sic]) boy, were murdered and four others [were] wounded.

the lone male audience member at the concert

a lone house;  a lone isle

By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.

Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.

He made a turn or two in the shop, and looked for Hope among the instruments; but they obstinately worked out reckonings for the missing ship, in spite of any opposition he could offer, that ended at the bottom of the lone sea.

Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.

A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.

lone congressional district

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