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

That same year, Altman also gave him the title role in his “Brewster McCloud,” an eccentric fable about a Houston loner determined to build a pair of wings and take flight.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 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

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

“I’ve always been a loner and I’ve always wanted to see Africa, so I took leave from my humble newspaper job and a generous loan from my aunt and here I am.”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie