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Examples of lone in a Sentence
the lone ripe apple in the entire bag
just one lone cow in the middle of the field
Recent Examples of lone from the Web
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Their lone run before Hoskins’ hit came on an Odubel Herrera third-inning single.
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The Marlins mustered only five hits with Miguel Rojas accounting for two of them and scored their lone run in the eighth on a fielder’s choice grounder by Justin Bour.
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But credit the Brewers for hanging in there behind starter Jhoulys Chacín, who limited the Mets to a lone run himself.
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Oladipo, in his lone season with the Thunder, averaged 15.9 points and 2.6 assists a game toiling in Westbrook’s shadow.
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The Warriors sit atop the deep DCL at 5-1 overall after handing Newton South its first loss of the year; the lone blemish a five-set loss to Boston Latin.
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Spiro Stameson provided the Sailors' lone run with a homer in the third inning.
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The lone home run, seen by the crowd of 9,155 came, from the River Cats' Mac Williamson.
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That very day in Cleveland, the man signed only because of Hosmer’s departure from Kansas City, Lucas Duda, homered for the lone run in a 1-0 win at Cleveland.
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Origin and Etymology of lone
Middle English, short for alone
lone Synonyms
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
attended, chaperoned, escorted;
adjacent, adjoining, communicating, contiguous, neighboring, next-door;
Related Words
cloistered, disassociated, hermetic (also hermetical), insulated, isolate, isolated, remote, retired, secluded, withdrawn;
quarantined, segregated, separated, sequestered;
separate, unattached, unconnected, unlinked;
detached, disconnected, disjointed, dissociated, disunited, divided;
abandoned, adrift, deserted, desolate, forgotten, forsaken, lorn, neglected;
Phrases
on one's own;
Synonym Discussion of lone
alone, solitary, lonely, lonesome, lone, forlorn, desolate mean isolated from others. alone stresses the objective fact of being by oneself with slighter notion of emotional involvement than most of the remaining terms.
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- everyone needs to be alone sometimes
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- glorying in the calm of her solitary life
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- left solitary by the death of his wife
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- felt lonely and forsaken
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- an only child often leads a lonesome life
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- a lone robin pecking at the lawn
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- a forlorn lost child
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- desolate after her brother's death
LONE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of lone for English Language Learners
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: standing, acting, or being alone
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: not having a partner (such as a husband or wife)
LONE Defined for Kids
adjective
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Definition of lone for Students
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: having no companion
- a lone traveler
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: situated by itself
- a lone outpost
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