How to Use lone wolf in a Sentence

lone wolf

noun

• He had the reputation of being a lone wolf in high school.
• The stereotype of a lone wolf coder doesn’t ring true these days.
  — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 16 June 2023
• This year, famous lone wolf OR-7 formed the first pack in the western part of the state.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2015
• Stephen Lang is set to reprise his role of the deadly lone wolf known as Blind Man.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2020
• The lone wolf won’t have the resources nor the insights by themselves to reach AGI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• Part of the problem is that the Jazz are currently a lone wolf in Utah.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
• These roaches didn't clump, but seemed to run about as lone wolves.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 14 May 2018
• Even by lone wolf standards, William Tell stands apart.
  — Stuart Miller, Variety, 31 Jan. 2022
• Cause yeah, Rosita does have a little bit of that sort of like lone wolf streak in her.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• The women in Taylor Sheridan projects tend to be lone wolves.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 July 2023
• Science has left behind the era of the lone wolf mutations.
  — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
• The lone wolf — in journalism, as in nature — is a rare creature.
  — Alan Rusbridger, New York Times, 13 June 2018
• Hanes believes Ray became less afraid of the police, and more afraid of Raul as time went by and became a lone wolf.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• And a lot of those documents have pointed away from Oswald as a pure lone wolf.
  — Eli Watkins, CNN, 26 Apr. 2018
• This shooting wasn’t the Uvalde sort of thing — where one unhinged, aggrieved lone wolf went on a murder spree at a school.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 19 Apr. 2023
• And in March of this year, another man with a grudge demonstrated once again the power of the lone wolf to spread terror via the mail.
  — Simon R. Gardner, The Atlantic, 4 May 2018
• Of concern are lone wolves and small groups acting with little to no notice.
  — Pierre Thomas, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• To be irredeemable is surely to be special, a lone wolf.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
• Law enforcement leaders have said one of the most concerning threats is the threat of a lone wolf actor.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
• Left for dead, a Cro-Magnon teen forms an unlikely alliance with a lone wolf that was abandoned by its pack.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
• This year, with Akinjo gone, Flagler is the lone wolf to take charge and be the focal ballhander.
  — Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2022
• Byrne and his colleagues printed hats and T-shirts with their own logo for Team 10: a lone wolf, howling into a void.
  — Erin Patrick O'Connor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• Each time, there is a story: a terrorist, a lone wolf, a thug, a psychopath, a great unknowable evil.
  — Vogue, 2 Oct. 2017
• The easiest way to defeat Zircon is to sink the ships it is deployed on, and so far, Admiral Gorshkov, is the lone wolf.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
• Being a lone wolf or lone rat makes these shooters extremely hard to detect.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019
• Adnani was also the most vocal figure in issuing calls-to-arms to potential lone wolves in the West.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 30 Aug. 2016
• For now, No Time to Die, which carries a budget of around $250 million before marketing, appears to be a lone wolf.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2020
• In more recent years, Israel has grappled with lower tech, more lone wolf-style attacks.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
• As the movie goes on, these two will learn to work together, but the film’s anti-grammatical title is saying that each one is a lone wolf.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
• Early indication is that this is a lone wolf, the source said, but the situation is fluid and the investigators want to be absolutely certain that this person had no support and that no one knew what was coming.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024