loner

Example Sentences

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No one does anything alone, but this reader describes himself as a loner, and one reason he’s sitting on a big nest egg is because he started early.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

“The Mandalorian and Grogu” takes the series’ thematic underpinnings — what parenting looks like between a masked human loner and an otherworldly toddler — and deepens them.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Los Angeles and Tucson, Ariz. Despite many close friendships, especially with women, he was at heart a loner, conditioned, possibly, by clinical depression, for which he sought electroshock therapy even though it addled his brain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Through the first two films in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s planned trilogy, the audience comes to know him as a reserved loner who prizes calm.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

According to Nan, she was a born loner but always blessed with a plus-one, first my daddy and now me.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry