How to Use loner in a Sentence

loner

noun
  • All her work until then, has been as a loner.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Cups made to look like coconut shells are for the loners like me.
    — Kayla O'Brien, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • This isn't the good player who's the loner who doesn't act right.
    — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • While a lot of little fish can be found in the same hole or run, big fish tend to be loners.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But the loner’s predicament was a boon for science.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • Zim is the loner, the social outcast.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The consequences of it are the loners who go off and do mass shootings.
    — Mac Engel april 20, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2026
  • All of the victims have been loners with no friends or family ties.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Your love light might be switched on by the misunderstood-loner type.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • At school, classmates knew Cruz as a loner who talked mostly about his love of weapons.
    — Nicholas Nehamas, Joey Flechas, Jay Weaver and David Ovalle, miamiherald, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Could an irredeemable loner doomed to a life peering from the outside in do this?
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 26 May 2025
  • Futrell said Waddell was a loner but did not know of any problems between the two.
    — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Druig is aloof and a bit of a loner, but in real life, Keoghan quickly hit it off with his costars.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The common view that domestic cats are aloof loners couldn’t be further from the truth.
    — Jonathan Losos, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • At this point in the story, Max is living far away, and Chloe is a loner.
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 5 Apr. 2018
  • In Prine’s world, even the shaggiest of loners and losers can be redeemed.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
  • Players take on the role of Ash, a young loner who spends his time drawing in his notebook.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 30 July 2019
  • Shamaly has light brown skin, an irreverent sense of humor, and a loner’s mien.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • But there are also loners, sunners (wings open), fliers, grounders (alive on the ground) and dead monarchs.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • As Jaques, the melancholy loner, Jamie wore a long black duster and a black cowboy hat.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • This isn’t the shadowy loner, or millionaire playboy, fans are used to.
    — Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Of course in pop culture, cowboys are stoic loners who push their bodies and minds to the limit.
    — Andy Dunn, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But a dozen gray whales along the coast of Washington state are showing that even loners can get social.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The trail of clues eventually takes them to a strange loner (Jared Leto).
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021
  • Some former classmates described Crooks as a loner – a smart kid who kept to himself and had few friends.
    — Kenny Jacoby, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • Brynn’s a loner, living in a house that looks like it was decorated by a 12-year-old girl.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The study also dispelled the myth that only loners or those on the fringes of society attack.
    — Paula McMahon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 June 2018
  • An elephant needs a matriarchal herd, which then allows the males to go off as loners and meet up with the herd from time to time.
    — Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In the last episode of the season, loner Tyler (Devin Druid) is sodomized with a mop.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 22 May 2018
  • Until the events of Peacemaker season one, this guy was kind of a loner and kind of a loser.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025

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