lone
Example Sentences
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One disappointed man with a Gallrein sticker walked out, while a lone barfly looked at a broadcast of a PGA golf tournament.
From Slate • May 19, 2026
Stocks fell broadly, with the energy sector the lone bright spot.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
While his fellow students spark to the winds of political change and sexual freedom, he becomes fixated on what a lone geranium, imaginatively monitored on its windowsill, might have to convey if given the chance.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Southampton may try to argue that the spy was acting as a lone wolf, who took it upon himself to travel up to the Rockliffe Park training base 24 hours before the squad flew up.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
At first I thought they were playing to an empty room, but then I noticed the top of a shaggy blond head, lolling against the back of the lone couch that faced the set.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing lone
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