How to Use single-minded in a Sentence

single-minded

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• Lou was very smart and single-minded in not socializing with us.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 30 Mar. 2024
• Swift’s Poets has been at the top since its April 19 release, and Swifties have a single-minded goal of keeping it up there as long as possible.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 1 June 2024
• The results surprised even Lavallee: The most single-minded players performed less well over the three-year course of the study than the players with outside interests.
  — Talia Barrington, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
• Jones shares how such a single-minded pursuit can consume one’s life, while the film falls in a cycle of repetitive actions.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
• Katz is among the least fickle of artists, and the overall impression at the Guggenheim was one of single-minded, stubborn idealism.
  — David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• These early peeks into the Fire Nation add depth to Zuko’s fractured family and his single-minded quest to come home.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2024
• In his mind, that single-minded ambition was what landed him in Myanmar.
  — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• Guggeis followed those interests to the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, but not with single-minded focus.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• For a long time, Novo Nordisk was almost single-minded in its focus on tackling diabetes.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• His single-minded focus on the war, and on batting aside international criticism of the way it’s being waged, has so far kept most Israelis on board.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2024
• Archie’s walking style is to square his shoulders, pull the leash taut, then power forward with a single-minded determination.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
• Auden comes to think of our sinfulness as but part of the human story, and to see that a single-minded focus on it can diminish or even occlude gratitude.
  — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 13 Apr. 2022
• Still, Collet told me that a single-minded focus on drugs is something that only people of privilege can afford.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• The dream nurtured by the women of the Houghton Mifflin Five a decade earlier, of receiving better wages for creative work, had been reduced to the single-minded pursuit of money and power for its own sake.
  — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
• But this piece is directed at the folks who have mastered the basics and are ready to level up — not a total dedication to single-minded, no life outside of plants kind of existence.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2024
• That type of single-minded purpose is a rarity, more so when an idea comes to fruition in an actual physical product that reflects the mood of a generation.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 27 May 2023
• Those results should be somewhat expected, though, as Carter's military duties left him unable to bulk up or train with a single-minded focus.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
• His single-minded pursuit of his art and his callous self-indulgence lead one of them to madness, another to self-mutilation and an early demise.
  — Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Where Bruce’s Batman is somber, single-minded, and driven, Dick’s Robin is ebullient, freewheeling, and eager for adventure.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Edelstein has condensed the three plays into two and is focusing on the characters’ quest to achieve power at any cost, and how that single-minded purpose can lead to chaos, violence and anarchy.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• In a profession with its share of single-minded swaggerers, Koudelka was on another level.
  — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
• The candidate must be dedicated to a single-minded goal: Make life slightly less Dickensian for us in every way possible.
  — Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• By the next fall at Stanford, Watson would begin to enter the final phase of making golf a single-minded priority — and punctuating it with a commitment to affirm it.
  — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2024
• His single-minded devotion to his people’s cause awed followers and stunned relatives.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2023
• The film will also follow his personal journey and explore the psychology of a man who has sacrificed everything in his single-minded quest to connect with and understand the biggest creatures in the ocean.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 20 June 2023
• Herzog, known for his enigmatic films and single-minded commitment to achieving the impossible (pulling a boat over a mountain, for one) found a worthy artistic partner in Klaus Kinski.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 16 July 2024
• There’s something unprecedentedly freaky and single-minded about that.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• His single-minded focus on Black issues and refusal to compromise made some people uncomfortable.
  — Sandy Banks, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
• Despite the intense effort, which would leave most people gasping and single-minded, Siegrist had the aerobic and mental capacity to carry on a normal conversation.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
• In their single-minded focus on raising birth rates, its leading proponents misunderstand the nature of the problem and offer solutions that may be counterproductive to their aims.
  — Patrick T. Brown, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024