How to Use singleton in a Sentence

singleton

noun

• West led the singleton queen of hearts, and when East took the ace, Wang saw what was coming.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
• At the end of each episode, the singleton will pick a person to go on a second date.
  — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 12 June 2020
• Our singleton is so good with people of all ages and all walks of life.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
• The first episode sets up the premise for this sextet of singletons and their co-dependency.
  — Whitney Friedlander, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
• If West had a singleton club, East could capture dummy’s jack and return a club, but the slam would be safe.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
• The very old, migrants, the sick or disabled, and singletons are most at risk of feeling lonely.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Since West’s king of hearts is surely a singleton, East must overtake it and continue with the jack.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 23 July 2019
• Our group was half older couples and half younger couples with a few singletons mixed in.
  — Marian Bull, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2017
• Our group was half older couples and half younger couples with a few singletons mixed in.
  — Marian Bull, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2017
• West, the Dormouse, led his singleton diamond, and the Hatter, East, took his ace.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 9 July 2019
• West led the deuce of clubs, which looked, waddled and quacked like a singleton; still, declarer took the queen, drew trumps and led another club.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• Against that reasonable contract, West led his singleton club, and East won and returned a club for down one, no swing.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• The story follows a thirtysomething, fed-up singleton with a dreary job in a dead-end town.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 Sep. 2021
• The spinster was replaced by the cocktail/wine-swigging singleton.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 1 May 2020
• Naturally, this makes the singletons -- who have spent their time up to this point prancing around in string bikinis (the gals) and showing off their six-pack torsos (the guys) -– gasp and gripe.
  — oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2020
• Where couples are cuddled up and singletons see their requisite froyo as a cup of lonely.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2018
• Rent the Backyard builds cottage-style studio apartments in empty backyards and then rents them out to singletons.
  — Wired, 3 Oct. 2019
• That singleton facing heat to settle down on the occasion of turning 35?
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
• Then against four hearts, West led his singleton diamond: king, eight, seven.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
• But the variable domains of the camelid’s heavy-chain-only antibodies are singletons.
  — Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• Like with the Halo for singletons, the top can rotate toward an adult bed and the sides bend down so a parent can more easily get a baby out for feeding or soothing.
  — Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
• There’s no widespread asymmetrical power structure with singletons at the top and twins at the bottom.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• Jennifer Coolidge, who played a tragi-comic singleton, picked up the award for best supporting actress.
  — WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• On average, adult twins seem to be healthier and more content than singletons.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• Even when all goes according to plan, twins are usually born a few weeks earlier than singletons.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 21 June 2017
• To recap, this is a movie about an insecure singleton named Renee Bennett (Schumer), who hits her head in spin class and wakes up feeling like a new woman: a hot woman.
  — K. Austin Collins, HWD, 23 Apr. 2018
• People who are paired off may be able to detect melanoma earlier than singletons, since their partner can spot suspicious moles right away.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
• Also, unlike the pair of DF2 and DF4, each of these galaxies is a singleton, isolated and nowhere near any other cosmic object that could strip away dark matter.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2021
• In real life East shifted to his singleton seven of diamonds.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2017
• Its third season turns up the competition with the reveal of — gasp! — a second island, complete with another set of singletons.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024