How to Use lone wolf in a Sentence

lone wolf

noun
  • He had the reputation of being a lone wolf in high school.
  • The time of the lone wolf is over.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • There’s a lone wolf and cub sort of a thing.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But the Horse is not a lone wolf.
    — Marie Bladt, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2026
  • He was believed to be a lone wolf.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Benoit is also a lone wolf type.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Soon a lone wolf howled behind us.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • No single lone wolf will save the day.
    — Maria Ross, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • This was a lone wolf, in my opinion.
    — CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Think wolf pack versus lone wolf.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The stereotype of a lone wolf coder doesn’t ring true these days.
    — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • These roaches didn't clump, but seemed to run about as lone wolves.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 14 May 2018
  • There were no lone wolves in Stecher’s pack.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a lone wolf fighting for his survival on his own.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In that episode, lone wolf Gibbs got a new special friend, an adorable dog.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Some of these things run deeper in terms of the lone wolf element.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The lone wolf lifestyle suits Charlie just fine — for a while.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 8 May 2025
  • Even lone wolves can become pack leaders—if the terrain calls for it.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • As Wiles made clear to Axios, there's no room for lone wolves this time.
    — Marc Caputo, Axios, 26 Jan. 2025
  • That may have been in part to keep any adversaries (or lone wolves) guessing.
    — Neil Flanagan, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • Cause yeah, Rosita does have a little bit of that sort of like lone wolf streak in her.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Is your pet more of a loyal pack leader or a free-spirited lone wolf?
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • These are the lone wolves of automation.
    — Andrew Siemer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Of concern are lone wolves and small groups acting with little to no notice.
    — Pierre Thomas, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The myth of the lone wolf entrepreneur couldn't be further from the truth.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The lone wolf — in journalism, as in nature — is a rare creature.
    — Alan Rusbridger, New York Times, 13 June 2018
  • Weaving, for one, was told that her backstory was that of a lone wolf who grew up in foster care.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Stephen Lang is set to reprise his role of the deadly lone wolf known as Blind Man.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Being a lone wolf or lone rat makes these shooters extremely hard to detect.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • And a lot of those documents have pointed away from Oswald as a pure lone wolf.
    — Eli Watkins, CNN, 26 Apr. 2018

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