loner

Example Sentences

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Since I’m a loner, I don’t have any really close friends, either.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 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

His gently oddball vision of loner heroics has plenty of terror-steeped imagery to go with the referential sound design’s aural innocence of antiquated bloops, blurps and synthetic tones.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

Now the loner who rarely leaves his house is a bearded traveler making his way across a forbidding Tolkien-on-acid landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Sometimes the loner digs a well and a cesspool, and plants a small garden, but others transport their water in fifty-gallon oil drums.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck