[ UK /lˈə‍ʊn/ ]
[ US /ˈɫoʊn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by or preferring solitude
    a lonely existence
    a lone wolf
    a man of a solitary disposition
    a solitary walk
  2. being the only one; single and isolated from others
    an only child
    the sole example
    a solitary speck in the sky
    a lonesome pine
    the lone doctor in the entire county
    a solitary instance of cowardice
    the sole heir
  3. lacking companions or companionship
    a lonely soul
    the lone skier on the mountain
    a solitary traveler
    a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel
    he was alone when we met him
    she is alone much of the time
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How To Use lone In A Sentence

  • I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
  • ; Cohn, D.H.: Luciferase genes cloned from the unculturable luminous bacteroid symbiont of the Caribbean flashlight fish, Kryptopha - naron alfredi. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
  • It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.
  • It seemed impossible that anyone could come alive through that cyclone of destruction. The Sun
  • I feel unwanted feel like leaving spreading lies can't help but feel lonelily you've damned me to hell once twice and again you're supposed to be my parents not just another person that hates me dead - alive Godhatesu Diary Entry
  • But even these alienated loners can benefit from this book: See the section on astral love.
  • But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.
  • Ronald Martin retired from the United States Air Force Reserve as a Lt. Colonel. Mastin, Ronald L.
  • I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
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