How to Use single-minded in a Sentence

single-minded

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Parallel to this single-minded focus on competitiveness was the clear emphasis the sessions gave to military matters.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• And in its single-minded pursuit to destroy Hamas, Israel appears to have ceded the initiative for planning what should happen after the war ends to its Western allies, even though its military operations will set the limits of what is feasible.
  — Joost R. Hiltermann, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024