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How to use lone in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, verb

Lone means solitary; having no companion. Example: “The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.”

Examples of lone by meaning

adjectiveSolitary; having no companion.

  • a lone traveler or watcher
  • 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.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing...

adjectiveSole; being the only one of a type.

  • the lone male audience member at the concert

adjectiveSituated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.

  • a lone house; a lone isle

adjectiveNot divided into multiple districts.

  • lone congressional district

More sentences with lone

  • The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.From the entry swoop
  • The lone farmstand worker, sympathetic to my fugue state, encouraged me to try one—raw.2018, Paul Zitarelli, 36 Bottles of Wine: Less Is More with 3 Recommended Wines per Month Plus Seasonal Recipe Pairings, Sasquatch Books…. From the entry raab
  • Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo described the shooting as a "lone wolf" attack.2017 October 3, “Las Vegas shooting: At least 58 dead at Mandalay Bay Hotel”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2025. From the entry lone wolf
  • He had looked backward longer than he realized and neatly dead-centered the lone but firm sapling.2016, Thomas W. Kavanagh, The Life of Ten Bears: Comanche Historical Narratives. From the entry dead-center
  • The word einherjar is usually translated as lone warriors, but that doesn't really capture the meaning.2015, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer, page 60. From the entry einherjar
  • At the edge of the square fifty justicars marched around a lone towering figure.2015, Shane Michael Murray, The Orc of Many Answers, page 179. From the entry justicar
  • Most were lone gunmen too eccentric to keep much of a staff.2008, John Grisham, The Appeal, →ISBN, pages 197–198. From the entry lone gunman
  • Under the lone operating streetlight, Whispering Jack comes into full view. . . .2004, Ray Scott, Street Justice, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry Whispering Jack
  • A few days before Christmas, I spotted a lone tour group of about twenty-five Christians from Nigeria.2001, Charles M. Sennott, “Jerusalem: The Via Dolorosa”, in The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land’s Christians at the Turn of a New…. From the entry tour group
  • The lone cough, along with the minimal multiple cough, need not be recognized by cougher or coughee.1997, Alex J. Packer, edited by Pamela Espeland, How Rude! The Teenagers' Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior, and Not Grossing People…. From the entry coughee
  • I'm a lone wolf ligger, but I ain't no pretty boy.1984 September 1, “Killed by Death”, in BBC. From the entry ligger
  • A lone river wind sighed in the cordage of the ship.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 151. From the entry cordage
  • We must admit that there is no more place for lone wolfers in our industry.1970, Canada Poultryman, volume 57, page 26. From the entry lone wolfer
  • Its lone occupant, an unsmall woman, looked over and down at the sardined Simea, and grinned broadly.1959 September 21, “Stories of the Week”, in Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News, volume 88, number 3, Detroit, M.I.: Business…. From the entry unsmall
  • I am quite enough of a lone wolf as it is.1938, Elizabeth Bowen, chapter IV, in The Death of the Heart, London: Victor Gollancz, →OCLC, part II (The Flesh), page 249. From the entry lone wolf
  • It had taught him secretiveness, made him even more lone and separative.1935, Warwick Deeping, “In a Little Belgian Town”, in Two in a Train and Other Stories. From the entry separative
  • Clint Benedict, Windsor goalie, was the lone netminder to suffer a penalty.1931 April 6, “Hockey Review”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page 18. From the entry netminder
  • But even in the humanities, an increasing reliance on data is leading to more collaboration and less work by lone scholars.2015 May 26, Ernesto Priego, “Long lists are eroding the value of being a scientific author”, in The Conversation, archived from the…. From the entry hyperauthorship
  • For a lone Digger gone troppo, as Joe is deemed to have done, it is a realistic scenario.2009, Paul Tapp, Disquiet - the Justifiable Homicide of an Australian Vietnam Veteran, page 121. From the entry troppo
  • He writes prose with a conversational tone suited for a bus driver talking with a lone passenger on an hourslong excursion.2009 August 13, John W. Barry, “Songwriter's sojourn in Woodstock was not the best of times”, in Deseret News, archived from the original…. From the entry hourslong
  • And the summer heat, that windless, unrelieved, lazening, city heat also helped content me with this lone achievement.2008, Will Roth, The World of 1950: The End of Innocence, page 27. From the entry lazen
  • Tauscher is his lone statemate on the Packers.2008 January 20, Harvey Araton, “The Giants’ Country Boy in Short Sleeves”, in New York Times. From the entry statemate
  • How did I end up the lone monster in a family that belongs on a porcelain Christmas plate?2007, Melissa Walker, Violet on the Runway, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry vurp
  • Gerry had taken hires he shouldn't have taken, loned it across the mountains in a season he shouldn't have.1995, C.J. Cherryh, Rider at the Gate. From the entry lone it
  • The creative is independent — a lone wolfer.1962, Research Management, page 401. From the entry lone wolfer
  • I'm a poor lone woman — loner and lorner than I've felt since my poor, sainted Charles passed away.1917, Helen Beecher Long, How Janice Day Won, page 265. From the entry lorner
  • The lone "nay" came from the Republican lawmaker from Louisiana, Clay Higgins, who defied his party saying his vote was a principled "NO".2025 November 18, Brandon Drenon, “The only 'no' vote on releasing Epstein files”, in BBC. From the entry clay
  • At Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, the sounding of train horns was followed by a lone piper playing When the Battle's Over.2020 May 20, “Railway remembers VE Day with a series of tributes”, in Rail, page 15. From the entry piper
  • Bezos is the world’s lone hectobillionaire.2018 August 1, Annie Lowrey, “Jeff Bezos’s $150 Billion Fortune Is a Policy Failure”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original…. From the entry hectobillionaire
  • I’ll give you some food.” Eddie moved to a lone bag on the kitchen table and reached in, pulling out a can.2017, Kim Savage, “Part 3: Chest”, in Beautiful Broken Girls, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry c'm'ere
  • However, as the unit marched by, a lone gomer broke rank and ventured into the high, wet saw grass that concealed our position.2010, Brian Easton, Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter, page 22. From the entry gomer
  • A lone champion of the Chinese American real, she fought the rampant stereotype and antiyellow racism that were encouraging the passage of exclusion laws.2005, Kent A. Ono, A companion to Asian American studies, page 143. From the entry antiyellow
  • Lone women do not fare well.2002, Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor, page 187. From the entry fend
  • Prevalent as it is, it always surfaces abruptly, bobbing awkwardly as a lone yellow floatie in the public pool of our conversations.1998, Debra Shukles, “Weighing in as a Feminist”, in Rosamund Else-Mitchell, Naomi Flutter, editors, Talking Up: Young Women’s Take on…. From the entry floaty
  • She went at once to the green room and untrunking her writing materials drew the lone chair up to the gable window.1907, Marion T. Davis Barton, An Experiment in Perfection, page 352. From the entry untrunk

Meaning of lone

  1. adjective Solitary; having no companion.
  2. adjective Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
  3. adjective Sole; being the only one of a type.

Full definition of lone

Questions about lone in a sentence

How do you use lone in a sentence?
Lone is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.”
What is a short sentence with lone?
“lone congressional district”
What does lone mean?
Lone means solitary; having no companion.

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