How to Use loner in a Sentence

loner

noun

• As soon as the subject of a meme comes out and says they're bummed by it, I can no loner enjoy said meme.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 25 Oct. 2015
• Unlike some of their cousins, such as prairie dogs, groundhogs are basically loners, seeking out their own kind only to mate.
  — National Geographic, 31 Jan. 2014
• He was portrayed by the press as sort of a rugged western loner who defied government authority.
  — National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2016
• There's also a lot of heart in the episode, with Boyle portraying a sensitive, gruff loner dealing with the worst of curses.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2015
• The loners’ intifada has presented the current government with its toughest test so far.
  — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
• Some proved to be loners and others social, with a distinct preference for the company of certain conspecifics—or, in a less fancy word, friends.
  — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2016
• Lightning Ridge, with its small-scale, high-stakes opal mining, attracts a certain type — loners who come to escape society and find their fortune.
  — Michelle Innis, New York Times, 20 June 2016
• Typically, English eccentrics are futile, self-indulgent loners who make nothing but a passing show.
  — Richard Davenport-Hines, WSJ, 5 May 2017
• Cornell, a graduate of Oak Hills High School, was described as a loner whose family was not religious.
  — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 12 May 2017
• The desert combat strips life and death to an elemental cruelty; in Ray’s harsh world view, nature itself is hostile to Leith, a free-thinking loner.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• The 51 year old who's known for being a bit of a loner.
  — Fox News, 6 July 2018
• This isn't the good player who's the loner who doesn't act right.
  — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• Cups made to look like coconut shells are for the loners like me.
  — Kayla O'Brien, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• No one wants to have the creepy loner guy approach them.
  — Love Letters.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• In the last episode of the season, loner Tyler (Devin Druid) is sodomized with a mop.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 22 May 2018
• 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
• But loner runs like that are easy for Brazil to handle.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 4 July 2018
• At this point in the story, Max is living far away, and Chloe is a loner.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 5 Apr. 2018
• 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
• In Prine’s world, even the shaggiest of loners and losers can be redeemed.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
• 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
• At school, classmates knew Cruz as a loner who talked mostly about his love of weapons.
  — Nicholas Nehamas, Joey Flechas, Jay Weaver and David Ovalle, miamiherald, 15 Feb. 2018
• Futrell said Waddell was a loner but did not know of any problems between the two.
  — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Best of all, though, is the chimp played by Steve Zahn, an old-man loner who goes by a name some humans gave him long ago: Bad Ape.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 June 2017
• 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
• One lady remembers Clark as a loner, crying in his room while the others ignored him.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024