How to Use loner in a Sentence

loner

noun
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  • No one wants to have the creepy loner guy approach them.
    — Love Letters.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • While a lot of little fish can be found in the same hole or run, big fish tend to be loners.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Druig is aloof and a bit of a loner, but in real life, Keoghan quickly hit it off with his costars.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • It’s not the armed loner or militia team that survives.
    — Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • One thing that shows up in several of the movies Kennedy watched is the tale of the rebellious loner who’s ready to take on the whole world.
    — Matt Novak, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The trail of clues eventually takes them to a strange loner (Jared Leto).
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021
  • Players take on the role of Ash, a young loner who spends his time drawing in his notebook.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 30 July 2019
  • From the top, the camera follows the lead -- a loner in a hotel room who turns to tablets and booze to try correct his nasty paranoia.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2020
  • But there are also loners, sunners (wings open), fliers, grounders (alive on the ground) and dead monarchs.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The common view that domestic cats are aloof loners couldn’t be further from the truth.
    — Jonathan Losos, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Your love light might be switched on by the misunderstood-loner type.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Financial adviser Matthew comes off as a rude loner in both the pods and the men’s quarters.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Brynn’s a loner, living in a house that looks like it was decorated by a 12-year-old girl.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
  • An elephant needs a matriarchal herd, which then allows the males to go off as loners and meet up with the herd from time to time.
    — Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a lot of romance in the idea of oneself as a loner, and someone like Samuel is very susceptible to it.
    — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Of course in pop culture, cowboys are stoic loners who push their bodies and minds to the limit.
    — Andy Dunn, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Offerman plays Bill, a foul-mouthed loner who helps Joel and Ellie get a car in order to make their way to find the Fireflies.
    — Saba Hamedy, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • That Reagan was shot that same year by a warped loner much like Fleck seems not to register with Jacobin.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The boy was a pudgy loner who disliked school and longed in vain for popularity.
    — Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Great white sharks are typically loners, swimming through the world’s vast oceans largely on their own, in search of prey and mates.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Warner, 63, lived in a Nashville suburb and was described by a neighbor as a loner.
    — Brandon Griggs, CNN, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The Alaska blackfish is an evolutionary loner that fins through lakes and tundra ponds across much of the state.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Durant was supposed to be the new sheriff in town, the loner who could organize these guys into a posse of gunslingers to clear out the wild West.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
  • As a boy Rush was a pudgy loner who disliked school and longed in vain for popularity.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Dylan was really the first fan of the Band—the loner who picked up on their gang spirit, and thrived on it, even though he wasn’t really cut out to join it.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Gregory, the elder, is a loner who rarely talks to others, even his own parents.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Sideways Pike is a weirdo loner, a lesbian high school student whose two fathers run the town’s antique shop.
    — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Michonne was introduced in season 3, a loner-type with a katana and zombies as pets.
    — Amanda Taylor, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2022
  • How does this work with the isolated loner who commits these senseless acts of violence?
    — Shannon Carpenter, CNN, 17 July 2024
  • That darn cat may have started out as a loner, but by the end, this small cadre of creatures have saved one another enough times to be inseparable.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 June 2024

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