How to Use single-minded in a Sentence

single-minded

adjective

• In the kitchen, Ono is soft-spoken and single-minded.
  — Stephanie Bai, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2026
• This version is more single-minded.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
• Admirable to be so single-minded.
  — Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
• Lou was very smart and single-minded in not socializing with us.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 30 Mar. 2024
• The more the movie goes on, the more Alma seems a monster of single-minded drive.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
• But will his single-minded dedication to vengeance corrupt his own soul?
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
• And who better than the single-minded Big Tech execs.
  — Alexandra Ebert, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
• What, then, was the force behind this single-minded drive for accuracy?
  — David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026
• Such crimes are usually driven by a very real agenda or single-minded goal.
  — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2025
• All of which serves, two decades on, as a reminder that for all their single-minded brazenness, the Glazers did not act alone.
  — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 12 May 2025
• In his mind, that single-minded ambition was what landed him in Myanmar.
  — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• And every touchpoint should reinforce the same single-minded idea.
  — Cindy MacHles, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
• Connor Movalli, in contrast, was far more single-minded.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2026
• Jones shares how such a single-minded pursuit can consume one’s life, while the film falls in a cycle of repetitive actions.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
• But his obituaries were single-minded about his achievements.
  — Chris Nashawaty, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
• Our guide to the Best Toasters zeroes in on classic, single-minded bread browners.
  — Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2025
• In the overall sweep of history, the single-minded pursuit of short-term profits was an aberration.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
• This single-minded pursuit of joyful self-expression mirrors the way she's approached her career.
  — Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
• That’s quite a single-minded focus on fictional law enforcement stories.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
• Archie’s walking style is to square his shoulders, pull the leash taut, then power forward with a single-minded determination.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
• His single-minded devotion to his people’s cause awed followers and stunned relatives.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2023
• For a long time, Novo Nordisk was almost single-minded in its focus on tackling diabetes.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Quiet and reflective off the field, Cody transforms into a single-minded player between the lines.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
• In part, Gates regrets his single-minded focus, which kept him — and his employees — from enjoying a sense of work-life balance.
  — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
• Still, Collet told me that a single-minded focus on drugs is something that only people of privilege can afford.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• In the end, Ray does choose love, sacrificing himself and abandoning his single-minded pursuit of justice so that his friend can live.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
• Katz is among the least fickle of artists, and the overall impression at the Guggenheim was one of single-minded, stubborn idealism.
  — David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• Such single-minded cruise lines may also offer more solo staterooms and reduced or waived single-supplement charges on select voyages.
  — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026
• That single-minded focus on results to the exclusion of everything else is called a bottom-line mentality.
  — Dr. Samantha Madhosingh, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
• Auden comes to think of our sinfulness as but part of the human story, and to see that a single-minded focus on it can diminish or even occlude gratitude.
  — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 13 Apr. 2022