How to Use singleton in a Sentence

singleton

noun

• Our singleton is so good with people of all ages and all walks of life.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
• At the end of each episode, the singleton will pick a person to go on a second date.
  — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 12 June 2020
• Our group was half older couples and half younger couples with a few singletons mixed in.
  — Marian Bull, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2017
• West led the singleton queen of hearts, and when East took the ace, Wang saw what was coming.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
• The very old, migrants, the sick or disabled, and singletons are most at risk of feeling lonely.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Where couples are cuddled up and singletons see their requisite froyo as a cup of lonely.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2018
• On average, adult twins seem to be healthier and more content than singletons.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• The spinster was replaced by the cocktail/wine-swigging singleton.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 1 May 2020
• Against four hearts, Nail led her singleton diamond, and Tooth took the ace and returned the deuce.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024
• Even when all goes according to plan, twins are usually born a few weeks earlier than singletons.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 21 June 2017
• That allows for a singleton honor over the jack, as well as king-queen doubleton in either hand -- four cases.
  — Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
• If West had a singleton club, East could capture dummy’s jack and return a club, but the slam would be safe.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
• West led the deuce of clubs, which looked, waddled and quacked like a singleton; still, declarer took the queen, drew trumps and led another club.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• Like every human, singletons are complex and wholly their own people.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• Since West’s king of hearts is surely a singleton, East must overtake it and continue with the jack.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 23 July 2019
• People who are paired off may be able to detect melanoma earlier than singletons, since their partner can spot suspicious moles right away.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
• Against that reasonable contract, West led his singleton club, and East won and returned a club for down one, no swing.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• Since West’s ace of hearts was almost surely a singleton, Cy must not let East get in before trumps are drawn.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2024
• But the variable domains of the camelid’s heavy-chain-only antibodies are singletons.
  — Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• There’s no widespread asymmetrical power structure with singletons at the top and twins at the bottom.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• That singleton facing heat to settle down on the occasion of turning 35?
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
• In real life East shifted to his singleton seven of diamonds.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2017
• Rent the Backyard builds cottage-style studio apartments in empty backyards and then rents them out to singletons.
  — Wired, 3 Oct. 2019
• Jennifer Coolidge, who played a tragi-comic singleton, picked up the award for best supporting actress.
  — WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• West, the Dormouse, led his singleton diamond, and the Hatter, East, took his ace.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 9 July 2019
• The show from Nest Productions sees 10 singletons search for love while completely naked.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 July 2024
• While your hCG levels with twins may be higher than normal, the normal range for a singleton overlaps with normal ranges for twins.
  — Rachel Gurevich, Parents, 30 July 2024
• When the singleton arrives home for a visit, they are presented with dating options curated by their hometown.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
• However, many singleton puppies bond very closely with their human families.
  — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
• Naturally, this makes the singletons -- who have spent their time up to this point prancing around in string bikinis (the gals) and showing off their six-pack torsos (the guys) -– gasp and gripe.
  — oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2020